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title = "Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related Languages",
author = "Gasser, Michael and
Seyoum, Binyam Ephrem and
Kifle, Nazareth Amlesom",
editor = {Zampieri, Marcos and
Nakov, Preslav and
Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola and
Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and
Scherrer, Yves},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.5",
pages = "47--56",
abstract = "For languages with complex morphology, word-to-word translation is a task with various potential applications, for example, in information retrieval, language instruction, and dictionary creation, as well as in machine translation. In this paper, we confine ourselves to the subtask of character alignment for the particular case of families of related languages with very few resources for most or all members. There are many such families; we focus on the subgroup of Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea. We begin with an adaptation of the familiar alignment algorithms behind statistical machine translation, modifying them as appropriate for our task. We show how character alignment can reveal morphological, phonological, and orthographic correspondences among related languages.",
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%T Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related Languages
%A Gasser, Michael
%A Seyoum, Binyam Ephrem
%A Kifle, Nazareth Amlesom
%Y Zampieri, Marcos
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Ljubešić, Nikola
%Y Tiedemann, Jörg
%Y Scherrer, Yves
%S Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
%D 2020
%8 December
%I International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
%C Barcelona, Spain (Online)
%F gasser-etal-2020-character
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.5
%P 47-56
Markdown (Informal)
[Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.5) (Gasser et al., VarDial 2020)
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