2020
Harnessing Cross-lingual Features to Improve Cognate Detection for Low-resource Languages
Diptesh Kanojia, Raj Dabre, Shubham Dewangan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Gholamreza Haffari, Malhar Kulkarni
COLING 2020main
Cognates are variants of the same lexical form across different languages; for example “fonema” in Spanish and “phoneme” in English are cognates, both of which mean “a unit of sound”. The task of automatic detection of cognates among any two languages can help downstream NLP tasks such as Cross-ling…