wswu / corevoc

Multilingual Dictionary Based Construction of Core Vocabulary

Multilingual Dictionary Based Construction of Core Vocabulary

This is the code for our paper Multilingual Dictionary Based Construction of Core Vocabulary.

• lists/core is the core list
• computelist.jl computes the list
• computecoverage.jl runs analyses
• process_anc.jl and process_gng.sh generates wordlists from various corpora
• train.sh trains a neural MT model to do cognate prediction

If you found this code useful, please consider citing

@inproceedings{wu2020corevoc,
  title = "Multilingual Dictionary Based Construction of Core Vocabulary",
  author = "Wu, Winston and Yarowsky, David",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)",
  address = "Marseilles, France",
  year = "2020",
}