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Open Problems in Computational Historical Linguistics

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Problems constitute the starting point of all scientific research. The essay reflects on the different kinds of problems that scientists address in their research and discusses a list of 10 problems for the field of computational historical linguistics, that was proposed throughout 2019 in a series of blog posts (see http://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/). In contrast to problems identified in different contexts, these problems were considered to be solvable, but no solution could be proposed back then. By discussing the problems in the light of developments that have been made in the field during the past five years, a modified list is proposed that takes new insights into account but also finds that the majority of the problems has not yet been solved.

Source: Open Research Europe

DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16804.2

Author: Johann-Mattis List

Institutions: University of Passau, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Language: English

Topic: Linguistics and language evolution

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $841

Funders: European Commission, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme