The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability of large datasets of both structural and lexical linguistic data. These data can be profitably exploited computationally to explore linguistic history and linguistic universals. Work in Bioinformatics has addressed parallel sets of questions for data on living species, and a large array of computational modeling techniques have been developed towards this goal. This workshop aimed to bring together linguists, biologists and mathematicians to make progress on the following topics:

• Modeling of Linguistic Data
• Algorithms for Inferences on Linguistic Data
• Case studies of Specific Families/Regions
• Synergies between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Data

It was held at Lorentz Center Leiden from 26-30 October 2015.

Scientific organizers:

• Devdatt Dubhashi (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Russell Gray (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Harald Hammarström (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen, Germany)
• Marian Klamer (Leiden, The Netherlands)
• Andrew Meade (Reading, United Kingdom)

Proceedings Editors: Christian Bentz, Gerhard Jäger, Igor Yanovich

Cite as: Bentz, Christian, Jäger, Gerhard & Yanovich, Igor (eds.) (2016). Proceedings of the Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics. University of Tübingen, online publication system, https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/68558.