Automatic Discrimination between Inherited and Borrowed Latin Words in Romance Languages (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to discriminate between inherited and borrowed Latin words have been used to investigate the problem of automatic discrimination between a language's sound shifts. |
| Approach: | They propose a new dataset to investigate the problem of automatically discriminating between inherited and borrowed Latin words in Romance languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can automatically discriminate between inherited and borrowed Latin words on two versions of the dataset, orthographic and phonetic. |
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