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title = "On the Intelligibility of {R}omance Language Varieties: {S}panish and {P}ortuguese in {E}urope and {A}merica",
author = "Dinu, Liviu P. and
Uban, Ana Sabina and
Marchitan, Teodor-George and
Iordache, Ioan-Bogdan and
Georgescu, Simona",
editor = {Scherrer, Yves and
Aepli, No{\"e}mi and
Blaschke, Verena and
Jauhiainen, Tommi and
Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola and
Nakov, Preslav and
Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and
Zampieri, Marcos},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.11/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.vardial-1.11",
pages = "139--144",
abstract = "Mutual intelligibility within language families presents a significant challenge for multilingual NLP, particularly due to the prevalence of dialectal variation and asymmetric comprehension. In this paper, we present a corpus-based computational analysis to quantify linguistic proximity across Romance language variants, with a focus on major Spanish (Argentine, Chilean and European) and Portuguese (Brazilian and European) varieties and the other main Romance languages (Italian, French, Romanian). We apply a computational metric of lexical intelligibility based on surface and semantic similarity of related words to measure mutual intelligibility for the five main Romance languages in relation to the Spanish and Portuguese varieties studied."
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%T On the Intelligibility of Romance Language Varieties: Spanish and Portuguese in Europe and America
%A Dinu, Liviu P.
%A Uban, Ana Sabina
%A Marchitan, Teodor-George
%A Iordache, Ioan-Bogdan
%A Georgescu, Simona
%Y Scherrer, Yves
%Y Aepli, Noëmi
%Y Blaschke, Verena
%Y Jauhiainen, Tommi
%Y Ljubešić, Nikola
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Tiedemann, Jörg
%Y Zampieri, Marcos
%S Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%F dinu-etal-2026-intelligibility
%X Mutual intelligibility within language families presents a significant challenge for multilingual NLP, particularly due to the prevalence of dialectal variation and asymmetric comprehension. In this paper, we present a corpus-based computational analysis to quantify linguistic proximity across Romance language variants, with a focus on major Spanish (Argentine, Chilean and European) and Portuguese (Brazilian and European) varieties and the other main Romance languages (Italian, French, Romanian). We apply a computational metric of lexical intelligibility based on surface and semantic similarity of related words to measure mutual intelligibility for the five main Romance languages in relation to the Spanish and Portuguese varieties studied.
%R 10.18653/v1/2026.vardial-1.11
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.11/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.vardial-1.11
%P 139-144
Markdown (Informal)
[On the Intelligibility of Romance Language Varieties: Spanish and Portuguese in Europe and America](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.11/) (Dinu et al., VarDial 2026)
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