Linguistic Phylogeny Experiments for Optimal Word List Size

A repository by Taraka Rama of the University of Oslo contains nexus files and MrBayes command files for experiments on linguistic phylogeny. The work was presented at The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018) in Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA. The dataset is intended to determine the optimal word list size required for inferring the best phylogenies.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods based on lexical data.
• Determining optimal data size for language phylogeny reconstruction based on word lists.
• Reproducing experiments from the associated COLING 2018 paper.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed conference paper (COLING 2018).
• Includes specific command files for the MrBayes software, which may aid reproducibility.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Oslo (Author: Taraka Rama)

Collection Method

Created for experiments described in a COLING 2018 paper.