[Corpora-List] Help Regarding Cognates Identification

[Harald Hammarström]

Dear Padmini,
Greg Kondrak has done a lot of work on the problem of cognate
identification, you can see his papers here, which contain further
references to other people's work:
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~kondrak/
all the best,
H

2010/9/28 Padmini priyadharsini <padminipriyadharsini at gmail.com>

> Hi Eric,
>
> I mean to say the cognates have similar root words in different languages.
>
> I heard from one of my friend that cognates are historical origin
> words. Like let say "greek origin", "Latin origin" of words. Those are
> cognates.
>
> I do consider all the named entities are cognates and  also the words
> which has the similar root across languages.
>
> The above things are my understanding of cognates. If there is any
> misconception in my understanding, kindly clarify it.
>
> Thanks,
> Padmini
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Eric Atwell <csc6ea at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Padmini,
> >
> > could you clarify what you mean by "cognates" ??
> >
> > Google "define: cognates" gives several alternatives:
> >
> >  "words that have a common etymological origin"
> >  "having the same ancestral language; 'cognate languages'"
> >  "similarly spelled and/or pronounced words of different languages that
> > have similar meanings"
> >  "words related in language"
> >
> >
> > Eric Atwell,
> >  Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
> >  Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
> >  TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468  WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Padmini priyadharsini wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Kindly let me know the availeble tools and used techniques for
> >> cognates identification.
> >>
> >> I will be summarizing all the reply to the list.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Padmini
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Eric Atwell,
> >  Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
> >  Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
> >  TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468  WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Life is beautiful and enjoy its simplicity :)
>
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