People involved:
Amirahmad Shafiee
Neda Fallah
Ali Shafiei
Description: Language borrowing is one of the important topics in the linguistic world. Aside from it's positive and useful effects on the destination language; uncontrolled borrowing of foreign words may cause irrepairable harm. This brings up the idea behind the task.
Notebook: Mian product of the notebook is Foreign_word_detector function. the detector works based on the root of the words. Upgraded form of the functoin can be further found in the notebook; utilizing the word distance measuring along-side with persianizing the foregin words(writing the persian forms of foreign words with the help of phonetics) led to a better performing form of funciton.
Tags:
- Edit distance
- Lemmatization
- Text preprocessing
- Language borrowing
- Indirect translating