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No final number. This will work for something like the Swadesh list. There
are other
ways to get semantic distances from dictionaries. I would be interesting
to compare
them after they have been worked out.
Geraldine Reinhardt wrote:
Interesting. Does that leave the
final number at infinity (in the power of 2)?
Gerry
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IT would have to be in powers of 2. I got started on 32 already. We
can double it
to 64, then 128. We'd have to add 28 more to Swadesh 100. Then we
can double to
256, and we only need 28 more for that.
Gerry wrote:
Most interesting. Yet based on
Boolean ideas, how many words would be contained in renovating the
Swadesh list?
Gerry
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There is a shorter way. We can start with a subset of the Swadesh
list. Yakhontov
already has a shorter version which has 35 words. A simple metric
should probably
be based on Boolean ideas. 32 is a good number since it is a power
of 2. I already
got started but haven't had time to pay attention to it. If anyone
is interested, we can
collaborate.
tgpedersen wrote:
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In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com,
"H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I think what linguistics needs is a "semantic metric".
I know how
to
> derive at least two different
> ones from data but need time and money :-) I think all
linguists
should
> appreciate the need for
> semantic metrics. It does not matter how many. That could
always be
> worked out, fixed,
> repaired, improved etc. The trick is to get going.
>
That would require us to know some canonical development of
a
canonical set of concepts. That is a tall order.
Torsten
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