Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: A Computational Approach to Measuring the Semantic Divergence of
  Cognates   Meaning is the foundation stone of intercultural communication. Languages are
continuously changing, and words shift their meanings for various reasons.
Semantic divergence in related languages is a key concern of historical
linguistics. In this paper we investigate semantic divergence across languages
by measuring the semantic similarity of cognate sets in multiple languages. The
method that we propose is based on cross-lingual word embeddings. In this paper
we implement and evaluate our method on English and five Romance languages, but
it can be extended easily to any language pair, requiring only large
monolingual corpora for the involved languages and a small bilingual dictionary
for the pair. This language-agnostic method facilitates a quantitative analysis
of cognates divergence -- by computing degrees of semantic similarity between
cognate pairs -- and provides insights for identifying false friends. As a
second contribution, we formulate a straightforward method for detecting false
friends, and introduce the notion of "soft false friend" and "hard false
friend", as well as a measure of the degree of "falseness" of a false friends
pair. Additionally, we propose an algorithm that can output suggestions for
correcting false friends, which could result in a very helpful tool for
language learning or translation.

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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph