TY - JOUR
TI - A note on Levenshtein distance versus human analysis
AU - Stachowski, Kamil
TI - A note on Levenshtein distance versus human analysis
AB - 
	This paper argues that automatic phonetic comparison will only return true results if the languages in question have similar and comparably lenient phonologies. In the situation where their phonologies are incompatible and / or restrictive, linguistic knowledge of both of them is necessary to obtain results matching human perception. Whilst the case is mainly exemplified by Levenshtein distance and Russian loanwords in Dolgan, the conclusion is also applicable to the approach as a whole.
VL - 2011
IS - Volume 128, Issue 1
PY - 2011
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 155
EP - 160
DO - 10.2478/v10148-011-0020-6
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/a-note-on-levenshtein-distance-versus-human-analysis
KW - Levenshtein distance
KW - loanword adaptation
KW - Dolgan
KW - Russian