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    <abstract>We evaluate several orthographic word similarity measures in the context of bitext word alignment. We investigate the relationship between the length of the words and the length of their longest common subsequence. We present an alternative to the longest common subsequence ratio (LCSR), a widely-used orthographic word similarity measure. Experiments involving identification of cognates in bitexts suggest that the alternative method outperforms LCSR. Our results also indicate that alignment links can be used as a substitute for cognates for the purpose of evaluating word similarity measures.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Cognates and Word Alignment in Bitexts
%A Kondrak, Grzegorz
%S Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X: Papers
%D 2005
%8 sep 13 15
%C Phuket, Thailand
%F kondrak-2005-cognates
%X We evaluate several orthographic word similarity measures in the context of bitext word alignment. We investigate the relationship between the length of the words and the length of their longest common subsequence. We present an alternative to the longest common subsequence ratio (LCSR), a widely-used orthographic word similarity measure. Experiments involving identification of cognates in bitexts suggest that the alternative method outperforms LCSR. Our results also indicate that alignment links can be used as a substitute for cognates for the purpose of evaluating word similarity measures.
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%P 305-312

Markdown (Informal)

[Cognates and Word Alignment in Bitexts](https://aclanthology.org/2005.mtsummit-papers.40) (Kondrak, MTSummit 2005)

• Cognates and Word Alignment in Bitexts (Kondrak, MTSummit 2005)

ACL

• Grzegorz Kondrak. 2005. Cognates and Word Alignment in Bitexts. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X: Papers, pages 305–312, Phuket, Thailand.