High dimensional and spatial analyses for linguistics

Dmitry Nikolaev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

This hands-on seminar will take place at the Department of Oriental and Classical Studies (ULiège) – Room A1/3/52 (10-12AM and 2-4PM).

  • 2018.05.14 — Dimensionality reduction (PCA, different versions of MDS, autoencoders, t-SNE).
  • 2018.05.15 — Going spatial (analysis of variation inside and across (macro)-regions, regression on distance, neighbour graphs, using extra-linguistic variables for  disentangling neighbour and phylogenetic dependencies in the data, etc.).
  • 2018.05.16 — Clustering