@inproceedings{eger-etal-2016-language,
    title = "Language classification from bilingual word embedding graphs",
    author = "Eger, Steffen  and
      Hoenen, Armin  and
      Mehler, Alexander",
    editor = "Matsumoto, Yuji  and
      Prasad, Rashmi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of {COLING} 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/C16-1331/",
    pages = "3507--3518",
    abstract = "We study the role of the second language in bilingual word embeddings in monolingual semantic evaluation tasks. We find strongly and weakly positive correlations between down-stream task performance and second language similarity to the target language. Additionally, we show how bilingual word embeddings can be employed for the task of semantic language classification and that joint semantic spaces vary in meaningful ways across second languages. Our results support the hypothesis that semantic language similarity is influenced by both structural similarity as well as geography/contact."
}