Papers by John E. Miller
Detecting Lexical Borrowings from Dominant Languages in Multilingual Wordlists (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Language contact is reflected in the transfer of words from donor to recipient languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to use two classical sequence comparison methods and one machine learning method to detect lexical borrowings in contact situations where dominant languages play an important role. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods outperform classical methods on a sample of seven Latin American languages. |