Papers by Alina Maria Cristea
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. |
Pater Incertus? There Is a Solution: Automatic Discrimination between Cognates and Borrowings for Romance Languages (2024.lrec-main)
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Liviu P. Dinu, Ana Sabina Uban, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Alina Maria Cristea, Simona Georgescu, Laurentiu Zoicas
| Challenge: | Existing methods for discriminating between cognates and borrowings are difficult, but they provide a deeper insight into the history of a language and allow for a better characterization of language relatedness. |
| Approach: | They propose a computational approach for discriminating between cognates and borrowings based on a comprehensive database of Romance cognates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is the most comprehensive in terms of covered languages. |