Papers by Alina Maria Ciobanu
Automatic Reconstruction of Missing Romanian Cognates and Unattested Latin Words (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for producing related words are based on sequence labeling . |
| Approach: | They propose a method for producing related words based on sequence labeling . they aim to fill in gaps in incomplete cognate sets in Romance languages with Latin etymology and reconstruct uncertified Latin words. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method fills in gaps in incomplete cognate sets in Romance languages with Latin etymology and reconstructs uncertified Latin words. |
Simulating Language Evolution: a Tool for Historical Linguistics (C18-2)
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| Challenge: | Language change across space and time is one of the main concerns in historical linguistics. |
| Approach: | They propose a web-based tool for word form production that predicts how a word evolves in a target language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is language-agnostic and does not use external knowledge except for the training word pairs. |
Ab Initio: Automatic Latin Proto-word Reconstruction (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for proto-word reconstruction are time-consuming and manual, but few studies have done it . a recent study used cognates to reconstruct ancient languages from their modern counterparts . |
| Approach: | They propose to use Latin proto-words to automate the process of proto-language reconstruction . they leverage information from all modern languages and use conditional random fields for sequence labeling . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on previous results and requires less data . it is based on word forms in multiple Romance languages and on recurrent neural networks . |