Papers by Anca Dinu
It takes two to borrow: a donor and a recipient. Who’s who? (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying the direction of borrowing are limited. |
| Approach: | They propose strong benchmarks for automatic borrowing direction detection by using a borrowings dataset from the recent RoBoCoP database for five Romance languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the accuracy of the proposed task and proposes additional directions for future work. |
RoBoCoP: A Comprehensive ROmance BOrrowing COgnate Package and Benchmark for Multilingual Cognate Identification (2023.emnlp-main)
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Liviu Dinu, Ana Uban, Alina Cristea, Anca Dinu, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Simona Georgescu, Laurentiu Zoicas
| Challenge: | Existing databases for romance cognates are scattered, incomplete, noisy, or have uncertain availability. |
| Approach: | They propose to use etymological information to identify Romance cognates and borrowings from dictionaries to identify their ethymology. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves 94% accuracy on two pairs of Romance languages. |