Adding typology to lexicostatistics: A combined approach to language classification

By D. Bakker, André Müller, V. Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, P. Brown, D. Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, A. Grant, E. Holman. 2009

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Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Language Clustering (2019, background): “Several kinds of prior knowledge can be leveraged to cluster languages (Paul et al., 2009; Comrie, 1989; Bakker et al., 2009; Holman et al., 2008; Liu and Li, 2010; Chen and Gerdes, 2017; Wu et al., 2018; Leng et al., 2019), such as language family, language typology or other language…”
The Costs of Babylon—Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics (2013, unknown): “The average similarity across a specific set of words is then taken as a measure for the linguistic distance between the languages (Bakker et al. 2009).”
Native language, spoken language, translation and trade (2014, unknown): “…(see Brown et al. (2008)), it had a databank covering the lexical aspects (word meanings) of more than 2400 of the world’s nearly 7000 languages (Bakker et al. (2009)).2 By the time we engaged in an exchange with a prominent member of the project, Dik Bakker, in October 2010, there were…”