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Zihui Li

1 accepted papers

2022

A Generalized Method for Automated Multilingual Loanword Detection

COLING 2022main

Loanwords are words incorporated from one language into another without translation. Suppose two words from distantly-related or unrelated languages sound similar and have a similar meaning. In that case, this is evidence of likely borrowing. This paper presents a method to automatically detect loan…