Lexical and Semantic Features for Cross-lingual Text Reuse Classification: an Experiment in English and Latin Paraphrases (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Analyzing historical languages is challenging because they lack primary material for certain time periods . under-resourced languages such as Ancient Greek and Latin lack advanced natural-language processing (NLP) techniques . |
| Approach: | They propose to use machine learning to detect and classify paraphrastic text reuse in historical texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the accuracy of paraphrastic text reuse detection in historical languages. |
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