Papers by Teodor-George Marchitan
Verba volant, scripta volant? Don’t worry! There are computational solutions for protoword reconstruction (2024.emnlp-main)
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Liviu Dinu, Ana Uban, Alina Cristea, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Teodor-George Marchitan, Simona Georgescu, Laurentiu Zoicas
| Challenge: | Existing methods for protoword reconstruction are limited to a few languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a new database of cognate words and etymons for the five main Romance languages and apply machine learning to it. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves 90% accuracy in predicting protowords for Romance languages, surpassing state-of-the-art models and features. |