Commonality across vocabulary structures as an estimate of the proximity between languages

Yves Lepage (1) , Adrien Lardilleux (1) , Julien Gosme (1)

1 Equipe Hultech - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072

This paper proposes a possible way of measuring proximity between languages: it consists in measuring the commonality of structures between the vocabularies of two languages. Experiments on a multilingual lexicon of nine European languages acquired from the Acquis communautaire confirmed usual knowledge on the closeness or remoteness of these languages.

Mots clés: proximity between languages; comparative linguistics; analogy

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Yves Lepage, Adrien Lardilleux, Julien Gosme. Commonality across vocabulary structures as an estimate of the proximity between languages. 4th Language & Technology Conference (LTC'09), Oct 2009, Poznań, Poland. pp.457-461. ⟨hal-00447067⟩