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Pompei, Simone, Loreto, Vittorio and Tria, Francesca (2018). Copystree Gaming artificial phylogenies. Lang. Dyn. Chang., 8 (1). S. 55 - 78. LEIDEN: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS. ISSN 2210-5832

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Abstract

The reconstruction of phylogenies of cultural artefacts represents an open problem that mixes theoretical and computational challenges. Existing benchmarks rely on simulated phylogenies, where hypotheses on the underlying evolutionary mechanisms are unavoidable, or on real data phylogenies, for which no true evolutionary history is known. Here we introduce a web-based game, Copystree, where users create phylogenies of manuscripts through successive copying actions in a fully monitored setup. While players enjoy the experience, Copystree allows to build artificial phylogenies whose evolutionary processes do not obey any predefined theoretical mechanisms, being generated instead with the unpredictability of human creativity. We present the analysis of the data gathered during the first set of experiments and use the artificial phylogenies gathered for a first test of existing phylogenetic algorithms.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Pompei, Simone UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Loreto, Vittorio UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tria, Francesca UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-202624
DOI:	10.1163/22105832-00801003
Journal or Publication Title:	Lang. Dyn. Chang.
Volume:	8
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 55 - 78
Date:	2018
Publisher:	BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	LEIDEN
ISSN:	2210-5832
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language RECONSTRUCTION; DISTANCE; TREES; MANUSCRIPTS; ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; EVOLUTION; SUPPORT Multiple languages Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20262