3 papers
cs.CL2017
Acquisition of Translation Lexicons for Historically Unwritten Languages via Bridging Loanwords
Michael Bloodgood, Benjamin Strauss
With the advent of informal electronic communications such as social media, colloquial languages that were historically unwritten are being written for the first time in heavily co…
cs.CL2017
Using Global Constraints and Reranking to Improve Cognates Detection
Michael Bloodgood, Benjamin Strauss
Global constraints and reranking have not been used in cognates detection research to date. We propose methods for using global constraints by performing rescoring of the score mat…
cs.DB2016
Data Cleaning for XML Electronic Dictionaries via Statistical Anomaly Detection
Michael Bloodgood, Benjamin Strauss
Many important forms of data are stored digitally in XML format. Errors can occur in the textual content of the data in the fields of the XML. Fixing these errors manually is time-…