What is it about?
Bulgarian pronunciations in phonetic transcriptions are compared to one another using a sequence comparison measure derived from computer science (Levenshtein 1966) and modifed a bit for application to sequences of phonetic elements. The results are grouped using different statistical techniques (MDS, clustering) and compared to traditional (non-computational) classifications of Bulgarian dialects.
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Why is it important?
This is the first application of the sequence comparison metric (Levenshtein) to a Slavic language, an one with a well-studied and complex distribution of dialectal variants.
Perspectives
This publication was authored by a team of researchers familiar with both the computational metric and with traditional dialectological scholarship on Bulgarian.
Professor John Nerbonne
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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This page is a summary of: Quantitative and Traditional Classifications of Bulgarian Dialects Compared, Scando Slavica, December 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2010.530801.
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