The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

Modern phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used to address questions about
macro-level patterns in cultural evolution. These methods can illuminate the unobservable …

Hope Speech detection is the task of classifying a sentence as hope speech or non-hope
speech given a corpus of sentences. Hope speech is any message or content that is …

In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of
American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth …

The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and cultural composition of sub-
Saharan Africa. However, the exact dates and routes taken by the ancestors of the speakers …

The study of language origin and divergence is important for understanding the history of
human populations and their cultures. The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second …

The amount of available digital data for the languages of the world is constantly increasing.
Unfortunately, most of the digital data are provided in a large variety of formats and therefore …

This paper describes the IIITK team's submissions to the offensive language identification,
and troll memes classification shared tasks for Dravidian languages at DravidianLangTech …

Studying language evolution brings a crucial perspective to bear on questions of human
prehistory. As the most linguistically diverse region on earth, East and Southeast Asia have …