Abstract
Computational historical linguistics seeks to systematically understand processes of sound change, including during periods at which little to no formal recording of language is attested. At the same time, few computational resources exist which deeply explore phonological and morphological connections between proto-languages and their descendants. This is particularly true for the family of Italic languages. To assist historical linguists in the study of Italic sound change, we introduce the Proto-Italic to Latin (PILA) dataset, which consists of roughly 3,000 pairs of forms from Proto-Italic and Latin. We provide a detailed description of how our dataset was created and organized. Then, we exhibit PILA's value in two ways. First, we present baseline results for PILA on a pair of traditional computational historical linguistics tasks. Second, we demonstrate PILA's capability for enhancing other historical-linguistic datasets through a dataset compatibility study.
Abstract (translated)
计算历史语言学旨在系统地理解声变过程，包括在语言形式正式记录几乎没有到没有的时候。同时，在深入探索proto-语言及其后代之间的音位和形态联系方面，几乎没有计算资源存在。这一点尤其对于意大利语家族来说更是如此。为了帮助历史语言学家研究意大利语的声变，我们引入了proto-意大利语到拉丁语（PILA）数据集，它包括大约3,000对proto-意大利语和拉丁语的形式。我们详细描述了我们的数据集是如何创建和组织的。接着，我们展示了PILA的价值。首先，我们展示了PILA在传统计算历史语言学任务上的基线结果。其次，我们通过一个数据兼容性研究展示了PILA通过数据集兼容性增强其他历史语言数据的能力。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16341
