@InProceedings{ding-utiyama-sumita:2016:WAT2016,
  author    = {Ding, Chenchen  and  Utiyama, Masao  and  Sumita, Eiichiro},
  title     = {Similar Southeast Asian Languages: Corpus-Based Case Study on Thai-Laotian and Malay-Indonesian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {149--156},
  abstract  = {This paper illustrates the similarity between Thai and Laotian, and between
	Malay and Indonesian, based on an investigation on raw parallel data from Asian
	Language Treebank. The cross-lingual similarity is investigated and
	demonstrated on metrics of correspondence and order of tokens, based on several
	standard statistical machine translation techniques. The similarity shown in
	this study suggests a possibility on harmonious annotation and processing of
	the language pairs in future development.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4614}
}