A Dictionary-Based Approach for Evaluating Orthographic Methods in Cognates Identification
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu · Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2013
In this paper we propose a method for identifying cognates based on etymology and etymons. We employ this approach to evaluate the extent to which lexical similarity can be used for automatic detection of cognate pairs. We investigate some orthographic approaches widely used in this research area and some original metrics as well. We apply this procedure for Romanian and its most closely related languages, French and Italian, but our method is applicable to any languages.