Cognates, False Friends, and Partial Cognates: Automatic Identification of Cognates and False Friends; Partial Cognate Disambiguation - Couverture souple

Frunza, Oana Magdalena

 
9783836486200: Cognates, False Friends, and Partial Cognates: Automatic Identification of Cognates and False Friends; Partial Cognate Disambiguation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3836486202 ISBN 13 : 9783836486200
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

Cognates are words in different languages that have similar spelling and meaning. They can help second-language learners with vocabulary expansion and reading comprehension. Special attention needs to be paid to pairs of words that appear similar but are in fact false friends: they have different meanings in all contexts. Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages that have the same meaning in some, but not all, contexts. Detecting the actual meaning of a partial cognate in context can be useful for Machine Translation and Computer-Assisted Language Learning tools. The book presents research focused on cognate and false-friend words between two pair of languages, French and English. It presents a method that automatically classifies a pair of words from two languages as cognates or false friends. The method uses Machine Learning techniques with several measures of orthographic similarity as features for classification. The book also describes a supervised and a semi-supervised method that uses bootstrapping techniques for disambiguation of partial cognates and an annotation tool designed for this special type of words.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Cognates are words in different languages that have similar spelling and meaning. They can help second-language learners with vocabulary expansion and reading comprehension. Special attention needs to be paid to pairs of words that appear similar but are in fact false friends: they have different meanings in all contexts. Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages that have the same meaning in some, but not all, contexts. Detecting the actual meaning of a partial cognate in context can be useful for Machine Translation and Computer-Assisted Language Learning tools. The book presents research focused on cognate and false-friend words between two pair of languages, French and English. It presents a method that automatically classifies a pair of words from two languages as cognates or false friends. The method uses Machine Learning techniques with several measures of orthographic similarity as features for classification. The book also describes a supervised and a semi-supervised method that uses bootstrapping techniques for disambiguation of partial cognates and an annotation tool designed for this special type of words.

Biographie de l'auteur

Oana M. Frunza, is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her fields of interest are Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning focusing on text classification, knowledge representation, and information extraction. She has been working as a Research Assistant and a Teaching Assistant at University of Ottawa since 2004.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3836486202
ISBN 13 
9783836486200
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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