We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for
195 countries, which we use together with series for common official language and linguistic …

This article examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple
angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic …

Multilingual neural machine translation (NMT), which translates multiple languages using a
single model, is of great practical importance due to its advantages in simplifying the training …

Abstract The rise of Data Science and related fields of Big Data, Machine Learning, and
Deep Learning has transformed the industrial landscape. The areas of sports and sports …

This paper describes a computerized alternative to glottochronology for estimating elapsed
time since parent languages diverged into daughter languages. The method, developed by …

Linguistic distance, ie the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing
international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by …

In Ref.[13], Petroni and Serva discuss the use of Levenshtein distances (LD) between words
referring to the same concepts as a tool for establishing overall distances among languages …

African political leaders have a tendency to favor members of their own ethnic group. Yet for
all other ethnic groups in a country, it is unclear whether having a similar ethnicity to the …

There has never been in the past a language spoken more widely in the world than English
is today. How far has English already spread? How much further can we expect it to go …

In this paper, we define two quantitative distances to measure how far apart two languages
are. The distance measure that we have identified as more accurate is based on the …