@inproceedings{uban-etal-2025-friend,
    title = "Friend or Foe? A Computational Investigation of Semantic False {F}riends across {R}omance Languages",
    author = "Uban, Ana Sabina  and
      Dinu, Liviu P  and
      Iordache, Ioan-Bogdan  and
      Georgescu, Simona  and
      Vlad, Claudia",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.773/",
    pages = "15309--15323",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
    abstract = "In this paper we present a comprehensive analysis of lexical semantic divergence between cognate words and borrowings in the Romance languages. We experiment with different algorithms for false friend detection including deceptive cognate and deceptive borrowings and correction and evaluate them systematically on cognate and borrowing pairs in the five Romance languages. We use the most complete and reliable dataset of cognate words based on etymological dictionaries for the five main Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Romanian) to extract deceptive cognates and borrowings automatically based on usage, and freely publish the lexicon of obtained true and deceptive cognate and borrowings in every Romance language pair."
}