Publications

2018

Gerhard Jäger, Taraka Rama, Johann-Mattis List and Johannes Wahle: Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?, arXiv: 1804.05416 in NAACL HLT 2018.
Gerhard Jäger, Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources, arXiv:1802.06079

Gerhard Jäger and Johann-Mattis List: Using Ancestral State Reconstruction Methods for Onomasiological Reconstruction in Multilingual Word Lists, to appear in Language Dynamics and Change.
Lorini, Emiliano & Roland Mühlenbernd (2018). The long-term benefits of following fairness norms under dynamics of learning and evolution. Fundamenta Informaticae 158(1-3), 121-148.

2017

Gerhard Jäger, Johann-Mattis List and Pavel Sofroniev: Using support vector machines and state-of-the-art algorithms for phonetic alignment to identify cognates in multi-lingual wordlists, in 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of Conference, Volume 1: Long Papers, ACL, 1204-1226.

Taraka Rama, Çağrı Çöltekin and Pavel Sofroniev (2017), Computational analysis of Gondi dialects. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), pages 26-35
Mühlenbernd, Roland & Dankmar Enke (2017). The grammaticalization cycle of the progressive - A game-theoretic analysis. Morphology 27(4), 497-526.
Mühlenbernd, Roland & Taraka Rama (2017). What phoneme networks tell us about the age of language families. Journal of Language Evolution 2(1), 67-76.

2016

Christian Bentz (2016), The Low-complexity-belt: Evidence For Large-scale Language Contact In Human Prehistory?, In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef T (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)
Johannes Dellert (2016), Using Causal Inference to Detect Directional Tendencies in Semantic Evolution, In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef T (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)
Dankmar Enke, Roland Mühlenbernd & Igor Yanovich (2016), The Emergence Of The Progressive To Imperfective Diachronic Cycle In Reinforcement-learning Agents, In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef T (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)
Gerhard Jäger & Søren Wichmann (2016), Inferring The World Tree Of Languages From Word Lists, In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef T (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)
Giuseppe Longobardi, Armin Buch, Andrea Ceolin, Aaron Ecay, Cristina Guardiano, Monica Irimia, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nina Radkevich & Gerhard Jäger (2016), Correlated Evolution Or Not? Phylogenetic Linguistics With Syntactic, Cognacy, And Phonetic Data, In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef T (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)
Roland Mühlenbernd & Johannes Wahle (2016), Self-organization In Sound Systems: A Model Of Sound Strings Processing Agents, In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef T (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)

2015

Gerhard Jäger (2015), Support for linguistic macrofamilies from weighted sequence alignment, In: PNAS 112(41): 12752–12757.
Gerhard Jäger & Johann-Mattis List (2015), Factoring lexical and phonetic phylogenetic characters from word lists, In: H. Baayen, G. Jäger, M. Köllner, J. Wahle and A. Baayen-Oudshoorn (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, Tübingen.
Emiliano Lorini & Roland Mühlenbernd (2015), The long-term benefits of following fairness norms: A game-theoretic analysis, In: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 9387, Springer: 301-318.
Johannes Wahle (2015), Automatic alignment using Pair Hidden Markov Models. , In: Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2015 Student Session.

2014

Marisa Delz (2014), Mismatches between phylogenetic trees in Historical Linguistics, Master thesis, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
Gerhard Jäger (2014), Lexikostatik 2.0, In: A. Plewnia & A. Witt, eds., Sprachevrfall? Dynamik - Wandel - Variation. Jahrbuch 2013 des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Berlin, de Gruyter, 197 - 216.
Roland Mühlenbernd & Jonas David Nick (2014), Language Change and the Force of Innovation, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8607, Springer: 194-213.
Roland Mühlenbernd, Dankmar Enke, Matthias Villing, Nathalia Gavrilov & Jonas David Nick (2014), Modality Switch in Human Language Evolution, In: E. A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn & H. Cornish (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10) , 161 - 168.

2013

Armin Buch, David Erschler, Gerhard Jäger & Andrei Lupas (2013), Towards automated language classification: a clustering approach,, in Lars Borin & Anju Saxena, eds., Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, Berlin, de Gruyter, 303-328
Marisa Delz (2013), A theoretical approach to automatic loanword detection, Master thesis, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
Gerhard Jäger (2013), Phylogenetic inference from word lists using weighted alignment with empirically determined weights, Language Dynamics and Change 3(2), 245-291
Gerhard Jäger (2013), Wie die Bioinformatik hilft, Sprachgeschichte zu rekonstruieren, in Alfred Nordheim & Klaus Antoni, eds., Grenzüberschreitungen: Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld von Biologie, Kultur und Technik, Bielefeld, 139-166
Johannes Wahle (2013), Alignment and word comparison with Pair Hidden Markov Models, Master thesis, University of Tuebingen, Germany.