Estimating the proximity between languages by their commonality in vocabulary structures

Authors:
Yves Lepage;Julien Gosme;Adrien Lardilleux
Affiliations:
Waseda University, IPS Graduate School, Japan;GREYC, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France;GREYC, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Venue:
LTC'09 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Human language technology: challenges for computer science and linguistics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This article proposes a possible way of measuring proximity between languages: it consists in measuring the commonality of structures between the vocabularies of two languages. Experiments conducted on a multilingual lexicon of nine European languages acquired from the Acquis communautaire confirmed usual knowledge on the closeness or remoteness of these languages.