A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models
Computational Linguistics
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Learning a translation lexicon from monolingual corpora
ULA '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Unsupervised lexical acquisition - Volume 9
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ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions
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LD '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Distances
Evaluation of string distance algorithms for dialectology
LD '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Distances
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This paper proposes a simple metric of dialect distance, based on the ratio between identical word pairs and cognate word pairs occurring in two texts. Different variations of this metric are tested on a corpus containing comparable texts from different Swiss German dialects and evaluated on the basis of spatial autocorrelation measures. The visualization of the results as cluster dendrograms shows that closely related dialects are reliably clustered together, while multidimensional scaling produces graphs that show high agreement with the geographic localization of the original texts.