https://ojs3.uni-passau.de/index.php/calcip <p>Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice offers tutorials and discussion notes devoted to the topic of computer-assisted approaches to language history and diversity. The tutorials cover a broad range of topics, ranging from introductory notes on programming, via examples for data-sharing and re-use, up to code examples for complex analyses using software like Python and R.</p> Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics en-US Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice 2629-5873 <p>As a general rule, all articles in this journal are published with CC-BY Attribution 4.0 License.</p> https://ojs3.uni-passau.de/index.php/calcip/article/view/341 <p>This small study shows how data for an artificially created language that was supposed to reflect features of "proto-languages", predating modern languages by several thousand years, can be used in testing computational approaches in historical linguistics. In order to do so,&nbsp; computational workflow is described that retrieves the data automatically, creating a comparative wordlist compatible in format with software tools for historical linguistics, and then uses a baseline method for automatic cognate detection to compare an artificial language against a sample of Indo-European languages.&nbsp; The results show that artificial languages might help to fill a gap in testing that has so far been ignored in the literature.</p> Johann-Mattis List Copyright (c) 2024 Copyright remains with the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-07-17 2024-07-17 7 2 47 58 10.15475/calcip.2024.2.1