@inproceedings{frunza-inkpen-2007-tool,
title = "A tool for detecting {F}rench-{E}nglish cognates and false friends",
author = "Frunza, Oana and
Inkpen, Diana",
editor = "Hathout, Nabil and
Muller, Philippe",
booktitle = "Actes de la 14{\`e}me conf{\'e}rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs",
month = jun,
year = "2007",
address = "Toulouse, France",
publisher = "ATALA",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2007.jeptalnrecital-long.8/",
pages = "85--94",
abstract = "Cognates are pairs of words in different languages similar in spelling and meaning. They can help a second-language learner on the tasks of vocabulary expansion and reading comprehension. False friends are pairs of words that have similar spelling but different meanings. Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages that have the same meaning in some, but not all contexts. In this article we present a method to automatically classify a pair of words as cognates or false friends, by using several measures of orthographic similarity as features for classification. We use this method to create complete lists of cognates and false friends between two languages. We also disambiguate partial cognates in context. We applied all our methods to French and English, but they can be applied to other pairs of languages as well. We built a tool that takes the produced lists and annotates a French text with equivalent English cognates or false friends, in order to help second-language learners improve their reading comprehension skills and retention rate."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A tool for detecting French-English cognates and false friends
%A Frunza, Oana
%A Inkpen, Diana
%Y Hathout, Nabil
%Y Muller, Philippe
%S Actes de la 14ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs
%D 2007
%8 June
%I ATALA
%C Toulouse, France
%F frunza-inkpen-2007-tool
%X Cognates are pairs of words in different languages similar in spelling and meaning. They can help a second-language learner on the tasks of vocabulary expansion and reading comprehension. False friends are pairs of words that have similar spelling but different meanings. Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages that have the same meaning in some, but not all contexts. In this article we present a method to automatically classify a pair of words as cognates or false friends, by using several measures of orthographic similarity as features for classification. We use this method to create complete lists of cognates and false friends between two languages. We also disambiguate partial cognates in context. We applied all our methods to French and English, but they can be applied to other pairs of languages as well. We built a tool that takes the produced lists and annotates a French text with equivalent English cognates or false friends, in order to help second-language learners improve their reading comprehension skills and retention rate.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2007.jeptalnrecital-long.8/
%P 85-94
Markdown (Informal)
[A tool for detecting French-English cognates and false friends](https://aclanthology.org/2007.jeptalnrecital-long.8/) (Frunza & Inkpen, JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2007)
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