evolaemp/svmcc: First official release of code and software

Source code and data accompanying the paper "Using support vector machines and state-of-the-art algorithms for phonetic alignment to identify cognates in multi-lingual wordlists" by Jaeger, List, and Sofroniev

This repository provides source code and data for our study on automatic cognate detection with improved machine-learning methods. More information on how to use the code can be found in the README file. For a detailed list of all our sources, please consult our paper to be published as part of the Proceedings of the EACL conference in April 2017.