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2022 ACL ACL 2022

Low Saxon dialect distances at the orthographic and syntactic level

Abstract

AbstractWe compare five Low Saxon dialects from the 19th and 21st century from Germany and the Netherlands with each other as well as with modern Standard Dutch and Standard German. Our comparison is based on character n-grams on the one hand and PoS n-grams on the other and we show that these two lead to different distances. Particularly in the PoS-based distances, one can observe all of the 21st century Low Saxon dialects shifting towards the modern majority languages.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge - Artificial Intelligence and Data Science & Analytics and Interdisciplinary and Natural Language Processing

Authors

Janine Siewert, Yves Scherrer, Martijn Wieling

Topics

Machine Learning > Core Methods > Clustering Natural Language Processing > Applications > Text Classification Data Science & Analytics > Applications > Clustering Interdisciplinary > Linguistics > Computational Linguistics Machine Learning > Core Methods > Feature Learning

Keywords

syntactic analysis part-of-speech tagging character n-gram comparative linguistics dialect analysis n-gram analysis distance measurement dialect distance part-of-speech n-gram dialect comparison

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