Optimal Word List Size for Bayesian Inference of Linguistic Phylogenies

A repository containing nexus files and MrBayes command files for experiments to determine the optimal word list size for inferring linguistic phylogenies. The data was created by Taraka Rama of the University of Oslo for a paper presented at the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018).

Use Cases

• Testing the impact of lexical dataset size on phylogenetic tree accuracy based on the described experimental setup.
• Benchmarking Bayesian inference tools like MrBayes for linguistic phylogeny reconstruction.
• Reproducing experiments from the associated COLING 2018 paper on optimal data size for lexical inference.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale 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

Collection Method

Created for experiments described in a COLING 2018 paper.