Abstract
We developed an extensible, comprehensive Wiktionary parser that improves over several existing parsers. We predict the etymology of a word across the full range of etymology types and languages in Wiktionary, showing improvements over a strong baseline. We also model word emergence and show the application of etymology in modeling this phenomenon. We release our parser to further research in this understudied field.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.397
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3252–3259
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.397
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Winston Wu and David Yarowsky. 2020. Computational Etymology and Word Emergence. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3252–3259, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Computational Etymology and Word Emergence (Wu & Yarowsky, LREC 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/2020.lrec-1.397.pdf