We are excited to announce that our joint work with Frederic Blum and Mattis-List entitled “From Isolates to Families: Using Neural Networks for Automated Language Affiliation” on using lexical and grammatical data was not only accepted at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), but even received the distinction to be presented at the concept as an oral presentation. Less than 10% of the accepted papers receive this honor.

In our work, we joint forces with the experts on multilingual computational linguistics to develop a new machine-learning based technique to group languages into families. Our method can be used to identify to which language family an isolate may belong and can, therefore, be used to derive hypothesis over linguistic relationships between languages that are not yet known.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11688