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| Title | On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility |
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| Authors | Liviu Dinu and Alina Maria Ciobanu |
| Abstract | We propose a method for computing the similarity of natural languages and for clustering them based on their lexical similarity. Our study provides evidence to be used in the investigation of the written intelligibility, i.e., the ability of people writing in different languages to understand one another without prior knowledge of foreign languages. We account for etymons and cognates, we quantify lexical similarity and we extend our analysis from words to languages. Based on the introduced methodology, we compute a matrix of Romance languages intelligibility. |
| Topics | Language Identification, Lexicon, Lexical Database |
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On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DINU14.1183, author = {Liviu Dinu and Alina Maria Ciobanu}, title = {On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |