Similar Southeast Asian Languages: Corpus-Based Case Study on Thai-Laotian and Malay-Indonesian

Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

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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.
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W16-4614
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Toshiaki Nakazawa, Hideya Mino, Chenchen Ding, Isao Goto, Graham Neubig, Sadao Kurohashi, Ir. Hammam Riza, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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WAT
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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149–156
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Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2016. Similar Southeast Asian Languages: Corpus-Based Case Study on Thai-Laotian and Malay-Indonesian. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016), pages 149–156, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Similar Southeast Asian Languages: Corpus-Based Case Study on Thai-Laotian and Malay-Indonesian (Ding et al., WAT 2016)
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