Wichmann, Søren; Holman, Eric W.; Bakker, Dik; Brown, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 17, pp. 3632-3639
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 which can then subsequently be used to derive phylogenies. The authors modify the raw LD by dividing the LD by...