Applying the levenshtein distance to catalan dialects: a brief comparison of two dialectometric approaches
Author
Valls, Esteve
Nerbonne, John
Prokic, Jelena
Wieling, Martijn
Clua, Esteve
Lloret, Maria-Rosa
Publication date
2012ISSN
0210-377X
Abstract
In recent years, dialectometry has gained interest among Catalan dialectologists. As a consequence, a specific dialectometric approach has been developed at the University of Barcelona, which aims at increasing the accuracy of final groupings by means of discriminating the predictable components of the language from its unpredictable ones. Another popular method to obtain dialect distances is the Levenshtein distance (LD) which has never been applied to a Catalan corpus so far.The goal of this paper is to present the results of applying the LD to a corpus of Catalan linguistic data, and to compare the results from this analysis both with the results from Barcelona and the traditional classifications of Catalan dialectology
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
81 - Linguistics and languages
Keywords
Dialectologia
Dialectometria
Distància de Levenshtein
Diferències subjacents
Diferències agregades
Dialectal oral del corpus
Dialectología
Dialectometría
Distancia de Levenshtein
Diferencias subyacentes
Diferencias agregadas
Cuerpo oral dialectal
Dialectology
Dialectometry
Levenshtein distance
Underlying differences
Aggregate differences
Corpus oral dialectal
Pages
27
Publisher
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Collection
39;
Is part of
Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía
Citation
Valls Alecha, Esteve; Nerbonne, John; Prokic, Jelena [et al.]. Applying the levenshtein distance to catalan dialects: a brief comparison of two dialectometric approaches. Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía, 2012, 39, 35-61. Disponible en: <https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/verba/article/view/868>. Fecha de acceso: 8 jul. 2021.
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