CMU Multilingual NLP: Language Contact and Similarity Across Languages

YouTube·Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Explore language contact and computational models of language change in this lecture from CMU's Multilingual Natural Language Processing course. Delve into topics such as lexical borrowing, cross-lingual similarities, and lexicon mapping across languages. Learn about transliteration models and evaluation, cognates and loanwords, and bilingual lexicon induction. Examine real-world examples of Arabic-Swahili borrowing and discover various linguistic resources for studying language contact phenomena. Gain insights into the complex interactions between languages and their impact on natural language processing tasks.