@inproceedings{Smith1,
  author = "Eric J.M. Smith",
  title = "Phonological reconstruction of a dead language using the gradual learning algorithm",
  booktitle = "Proceedings, Computing and Historical Phonology: Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology",
  address = "Prague",
  month = "June",
  year = "2007",
  abstract = "The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the phonology of Elamite,
              an extinct language known only from written sources, whose phonology
              is currently poorly understood. Given that the mechanisms provided by
              Optimality Theory are powerful enough for a language learner to
              acquire a natural language given only overt forms, it should be
              possible to apply the same mechanisms to "learn" Elamite phonology
              given only its orthography.  The research described here was carried
              out with the aid of a piece of software, nicknamed <I>Grotefend</I>,
              which was developed as part of a larger research project into
              Elamite. The data used in this paper consisted of the contents of the
              <I> Elamisches W&ouml;rterbuch</I> (Hinz and Koch, 1987) marked up as
              XML with attributes such as morphology, cognates, semantics, corpus
              frequency, and chronology.",
  download = "http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Smith-2007.pdf"
}