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Fun With Your Compression Program
by Rattle at 6:13 pm EDT, Apr 30, 2002

The scientists performed a further test of their technique by analyzing a single text that has been translated into many different languages in this case the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The researchers used their method to measure the linguistic "distance" between more than 50 translations of this document. From these distances, they constructed a family tree of languages that is virtually identical to the one constructed by linguists.


 
 
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