Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity

In this study, we present Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity. As testbed, we focused on eight Philippine languages. No known language similarity value for these languages exists. Documents containing transcribed audio recordings, news articles, religious an...

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Main Authors: Oco, Nathaniel, Syliongka, Leif Romeritch, Roxas, Rachel Edita, Ilao, Joel P.
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-37362022-07-20T02:59:55Z Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity Oco, Nathaniel Syliongka, Leif Romeritch Roxas, Rachel Edita Ilao, Joel P. In this study, we present Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity. As testbed, we focused on eight Philippine languages. No known language similarity value for these languages exists. Documents containing transcribed audio recordings, news articles, religious and literary texts were taken from an online corpus and used as training data. Character trigram profiles were then generated using an n-gram generator and language similarity was computed. The results were matched against those reported in the literature and against the language family tree. To evaluate the metric, it was applied to five languages with known similarity values. The results were then compared with an existing lexical similarity metric. The average difference is 27%. Analyses of the results reveal that phonetic spelling play an important role in language similarity. As future work, the metric can be used on phonetic transcriptions. © 2013 IEEE. 2013-12-01T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2737 Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Computational linguistics Similarity (Language learning) Philippine languages—Data processing Computer Sciences
institution De La Salle University
building De La Salle University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider De La Salle University Library
collection DLSU Institutional Repository
topic Computational linguistics
Similarity (Language learning)
Philippine languages—Data processing
Computer Sciences
spellingShingle Computational linguistics
Similarity (Language learning)
Philippine languages—Data processing
Computer Sciences
Oco, Nathaniel
Syliongka, Leif Romeritch
Roxas, Rachel Edita
Ilao, Joel P.
Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
description In this study, we present Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity. As testbed, we focused on eight Philippine languages. No known language similarity value for these languages exists. Documents containing transcribed audio recordings, news articles, religious and literary texts were taken from an online corpus and used as training data. Character trigram profiles were then generated using an n-gram generator and language similarity was computed. The results were matched against those reported in the literature and against the language family tree. To evaluate the metric, it was applied to five languages with known similarity values. The results were then compared with an existing lexical similarity metric. The average difference is 27%. Analyses of the results reveal that phonetic spelling play an important role in language similarity. As future work, the metric can be used on phonetic transcriptions. © 2013 IEEE.
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author Oco, Nathaniel
Syliongka, Leif Romeritch
Roxas, Rachel Edita
Ilao, Joel P.
author_facet Oco, Nathaniel
Syliongka, Leif Romeritch
Roxas, Rachel Edita
Ilao, Joel P.
author_sort Oco, Nathaniel
title Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
title_short Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
title_full Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
title_fullStr Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
title_full_unstemmed Dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
title_sort dice's coefficient on trigram profiles as metric for language similarity
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url https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2737
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