Dear Juan A. Barcelo,
Attached is a small .pdf copy of the handout for a talk I presented at
the 2nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, May 24-26, 1990.
Testing Theories about the Origins of Indo-European Languages
by Computer Simulation
I proposed an AI framework for that would incorporate time layered
archaeological data, attested language states, and expert systems
for variant theoretical analytic approaches of relevant fields
and subfields.
There was considerable interest, followed by discouragement
when I gave a time estimate of 10 years with active collaboration
of Indo-Europeanists with interested archaeologists, anthropologists and
linguists in a global effort.
Now, after 10 years, a new generations, more comfortable with
the concepts, are creating many of the necessary electronic
databases and AI programs, albeit in fragmented and disjunct
efforts.
The attached pdf handout includes several levels of flow diagrams
that may be of heuristic value.
Artifacts of some of my own fragmented and seemingly disjunct
efforts can be found at the URL listed below:
Sincerely,
Sheldon Klein
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Prof. Sheldon Klein [log in to unmask]
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sklein/sklein.html
Computer Sciences Dept.
University of Wisconsin Linguistics Dept.
1210 W. Dayton St 1168 Van Hise
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA
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