EMNLP 2024main0 citations
Verba volant, scripta volant? Don’t worry! There are computational solutions for protoword reconstruction
Liviu P Dinu, Ana Sabina Uban, Alina Maria Cristea, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Teodor-George Marchitan, Simona Georgescu, Laurentiu Zoicas
Abstract
We introduce a new database of cognate words and etymons for the five main Romance languages, the most comprehensive one to date. We propose a strong benchmark for the automatic reconstruction of protowords for Romance languages, by applying a set of machine learning models and features on these data. The best results reach 90% accuracy in predicting the protoword of a given cognate set, surpassing existing state-of-the-art results for this task and showing that computational methods can be very useful in assisting linguists with protoword reconstruction.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{dinu-etal-2024-verba,
title = "Verba volant, scripta volant? Don`t worry! There are computational solutions for protoword reconstruction",
author = "Dinu, Liviu P and
Uban, Ana Sabina and
Cristea, Alina Maria and
Iordache, Ioan-Bogdan and
Marchitan, Teodor-George and
Georgescu, Simona and
Zoicas, Laurentiu",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.362/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.362",
pages = "6314--6326"
}