Towards Automated Language Classification: a clustering Approach Armin Buch, David Erschler, Gerhard Jäger, and Andrei Lupas



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Figure 6. Cebuano-Danish alignment.


This example exhibits insufficient information for the conjunctions, as is often the case with non-content words. Adding the reverse links does not compete with other alignments, and therefore improves the solution. On the contrary, adding the reverse direction for dinalys clashes with blevdina. Arguably, the best solution is to delete the former link, and to symmetrize the latter, Fig. 8.


In the general case, alignments are less clean, and there will be no immediate symmetrization which also corrects all alignment errors. See Genesis 1:2 in Malagasy and Esperanto,


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