Title: Benchmark Database for Phonetic Alignments

Type Dataset List, Johann-Mattis, Prokić, Jelena (2014): Benchmark Database for Phonetic Alignments. Zenodo. Dataset. https://zenodo.org/record/11880

Authors: List, Johann-Mattis (Philipps-Universität Marburg) ; Prokić, Jelena (Philipps-Universität Marburg) ;

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Summary

In the last two decades, alignment analyses have become an important technique in quantitative historical linguistics and dialectology. Phonetic alignment plays a crucial role in the identification of regular sound correspondences and deeper genealogical relations between and within languages and language families. Surprisingly, up to today, there are no easily accessible benchmark data sets for phonetic alignment analyses. Here we present a publicly available database of manually edited phonetic alignments which can serve as a platform for testing and improving the performance of automatic alignment algorithms. The database consists of a great variety of alignments drawn from a large number of different sources. The data is arranged in a such way that typical problems encountered in phonetic alignment analyses (metathesis, diversity of phonetic sequences) are represented and can be directly tested.

More information

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11880

Subjects

• phonetic alignment, historical linguistics, dialectology, computational linguistics

Dates

• Publication date: 2014
• Issued: June 05, 2014

Rights

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Open Access

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electronic resource

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