@InProceedings{eger-hoenen-mehler:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Eger, Steffen  and  Hoenen, Armin  and  Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {Language classification from bilingual word embedding graphs},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {3507--3518},
  abstract  = {We study the role of the second language in bilingual word embeddings in
	monolingual semantic evaluation tasks. We find strongly and weakly positive
	correlations between down-stream task performance and second language
	similarity to the target language. Additionally, we show how bilingual word
	embeddings can be employed for the task of semantic language classification and
	that joint semantic spaces vary in meaningful ways across second languages. Our
	results support the hypothesis that semantic language similarity is influenced
	by both structural similarity as well as geography/contact.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1331}
}