Overview
Syllabus
CS11-737: Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Language contact drives language change
Lexical borrowing is pervasive in languages
Cross-lingual lexical similarities
Mapping lexicons across languages
Cross-lingual lexicon induction
Lexicon structure
How to bridge across languages? Borrowing
Transliteration models
Transliteration evaluation
Transliteration resources
Cognates and loanwords
Arabic Swahili borrowing examples
Linguistic research on lexical borrowing
Cognate and loanword models
Cognate databases
Lexical borrowing databases
Bilingual lexicon induction
Class discussion
Taught by
Graham Neubig