Based on Gerhard Jäger's 2013 paper called "Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights"
The purpose of this project is to develop a way to use wordlists from languages to determine their relatedness. Having run this project, a PMI matrix, along with an open gap and extend gap penalty, has been defined. With this matrix, a distance measure coined "Distance Based On Evidence of Relatedness using Pointiwse Mutual Information (dERC/PMI) is developed.
My output can be found at ./materials/output.txt