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title = "On the {R}omance Languages Mutual Intelligibility",
author = "Dinu, Liviu and
Ciobanu, Alina Maria",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1183_Paper.pdf",
pages = "3313--3318",
abstract = "We propose a method for computing the similarity of natural languages and for clustering them based on their lexical similarity. Our study provides evidence to be used in the investigation of the written intelligibility, i.e., the ability of people writing in different languages to understand one another without prior knowledge of foreign languages. We account for etymons and cognates, we quantify lexical similarity and we extend our analysis from words to languages. Based on the introduced methodology, we compute a matrix of Romance languages intelligibility.",
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%T On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility
%A Dinu, Liviu
%A Ciobanu, Alina Maria
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14)
%D 2014
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Reykjavik, Iceland
%F dinu-ciobanu-2014-romance
%X We propose a method for computing the similarity of natural languages and for clustering them based on their lexical similarity. Our study provides evidence to be used in the investigation of the written intelligibility, i.e., the ability of people writing in different languages to understand one another without prior knowledge of foreign languages. We account for etymons and cognates, we quantify lexical similarity and we extend our analysis from words to languages. Based on the introduced methodology, we compute a matrix of Romance languages intelligibility.
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%P 3313-3318
Markdown (Informal)
[On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1183_Paper.pdf) (Dinu & Ciobanu, LREC 2014)
ACL
- Liviu Dinu and Alina Maria Ciobanu. 2014. On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3313–3318, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).