Re: Automatic clustering of languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

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> http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/150000/146390/p339-batagelj.pdf?

key1=146390&key2=6896835711&coll=&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618

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> This is an unusal study in terms of the selctionof langauges. The
> position of Persian and Albanian are notable. Persian is no where
> close to Indic languages.
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> M. Kelkar
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In order to apply an automatic clustering algorithm in Computer Science
you need to know something in advance about the mathematical properties
of the classes that you hope to identify using this algorithm.

I mean: As any other Mathematical Model, the Model is good but you need
to know how and when (in what context) you can apply it.

And I'm afraid that they didn't.

Marius