2021-08-25

Paper on Borrowing Detection Published

Our study presenting a new method for automatic borrowing detection with Robert Forkel was now published by Open Research Europe (see here). The revision contains a very detailed investigation of thresholds used in automatic cognate detection approaches, which reveals that thresholds needed to infer borrowings differ quite substantially from thresholds needed to infer cognates language-family-internally. This justifies why we use two thresholds in our new approach.