2017
EMNLP
EMNLP 2017
Word Etymology as Native Language Interference
Abstract
AbstractWe present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing text in another language – in this particular case English. We start from the premise that non-native English speakers will choose lexical items that are close to words in their native language. This leads us to an etymology-based representation of documents written by people whose mother tongue is an Indo-European language. Based on this representation we grow a language family tree, that matches closely the Indo-European language tree.
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Interdisciplinary Bridge
- Artificial Intelligence and Interdisciplinary and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
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Keyword Pioneer
- language transfer
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Cross-Pollinator
- Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio