<s>
The	O
Automated	B-General_Concept
Similarity	I-General_Concept
Judgment	I-General_Concept
Program	I-General_Concept
(	O
ASJP	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
a	O
collaborative	O
project	O
applying	O
computational	O
approaches	O
to	O
comparative	O
linguistics	O
using	O
a	O
database	O
of	O
word	O
lists	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
isolates	O
and	O
languages	O
of	O
demonstrated	O
genealogical	O
groups	O
,	O
the	O
database	O
includes	O
pidgins	B-Protocol
,	O
creoles	O
,	O
mixed	O
languages	O
,	O
and	O
constructed	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ASJP	B-General_Concept
is	O
not	O
widely	O
accepted	O
among	O
historical	O
linguists	O
as	O
an	O
adequate	O
method	O
to	O
establish	O
or	O
evaluate	O
relationships	O
between	O
language	O
families	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ASJP	B-General_Concept
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
as	O
a	O
means	O
for	O
objectively	O
evaluating	O
the	O
similarity	O
of	O
words	O
with	O
the	O
same	O
meaning	O
from	O
different	O
languages	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
ultimate	O
goal	O
of	O
classifying	O
languages	O
computationally	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
lexical	O
similarities	O
observed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
first	O
ASJP	B-General_Concept
paper	O
two	O
semantically	B-Application
identical	O
words	O
from	O
compared	O
languages	O
were	O
judged	O
similar	O
if	O
they	O
showed	O
at	O
least	O
two	O
identical	O
sound	O
segments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ASJP	B-General_Concept
Consortium	O
,	O
founded	O
around	O
2008	O
,	O
came	O
to	O
involve	O
around	O
25	O
professional	O
linguists	O
and	O
other	O
interested	O
parties	O
working	O
as	O
volunteer	O
transcribers	O
and/or	O
extending	O
aid	O
to	O
the	O
project	O
in	O
other	O
ways	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
papers	O
published	O
since	O
2008	O
,	O
ASJP	B-General_Concept
has	O
employed	O
a	O
similarity	O
judgment	O
program	O
based	O
on	O
Levenshtein	O
distance	O
(	O
LD	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ASJP	B-General_Concept
uses	O
the	O
following	O
40-word	O
list	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ASJP	B-General_Concept
version	O
from	O
2016	O
uses	O
the	O
following	O
symbols	O
to	O
encode	O
phonemes	B-Language
:	O
p	O
b	O
f	O
v	O
m	O
w	O
8	O
t	O
d	O
s	O
z	O
c	O
n	O
r	O
l	O
S	O
Z	O
C	O
j	O
T	O
5	O
y	O
k	O
g	O
x	O
N	O
q	O
X	O
h	O
7	O
L	O
4	O
G	O
!	O
</s>
