@InProceedings{nastase-strapparava:2017:EMNLP2017,
  author    = {Nastase, Vivi  and  Strapparava, Carlo},
  title     = {Word Etymology as Native Language Interference},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {2702--2707},
  abstract  = {We present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical
	choice when producing text in another language -- in this particular case
	English. We start from the premise that non-native English speakers will choose
	lexical items that are close to words in their native language. This leads us
	to an etymology-based representation of documents written by people whose
	mother tongue is an Indo-European language. Based on this representation we
	grow a language family tree, that matches closely the Indo-European language
	tree.},
  url       = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1286}
}