@inproceedings{ding-etal-2016-similar,
    title = "Similar {S}outheast {A}sian Languages: Corpus-Based Case Study on {T}hai-{L}aotian and {M}alay-{I}ndonesian",
    author = "Ding, Chenchen  and
      Utiyama, Masao  and
      Sumita, Eiichiro",
    editor = "Nakazawa, Toshiaki  and
      Mino, Hideya  and
      Ding, Chenchen  and
      Goto, Isao  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Kurohashi, Sadao  and
      Riza, Ir. Hammam  and
      Bhattacharyya, Pushpak",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on {A}sian Translation ({WAT}2016)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/W16-4614/",
    pages = "149--156",
    abstract = "This paper illustrates the similarity between Thai and Laotian, and between Malay and Indonesian, based on an investigation on raw parallel data from Asian Language Treebank. The cross-lingual similarity is investigated and demonstrated on metrics of correspondence and order of tokens, based on several standard statistical machine translation techniques. The similarity shown in this study suggests a possibility on harmonious annotation and processing of the language pairs in future development."
}