Detecting English-French Cognates Using Orthographic Edit Distance
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Identification of cognates is an important component of computer assisted second language learning systems. We present a simple rule-based system to recognize cognates in English text from the perspective of the French language. At the core of our system is a novel similarity measure, orthographic edit distance, which incorporates orthographic information into string edit distance to compute the similarity between pairs of words from different languages. As a result, our system achieved the best results in the ALTA 2015 shared task.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015