Automatically built lexicon of false friends in 6 languages: Romanian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English.
The resource contains one file for each pair of languages among the languages considered. Files are formatted as csvs; for a pair of languages lang1-lang2, the corresponding file is <lang1>_<lang2>.csv, and the columns correspond to:
- word in
lang1 - corresponding false friend in
lang2 - a "falseness" score which ranges from 0 to 1 and is lower for false friends that are closer in meaning and higher for more distant false friends.
This dataset is distributed under a Creative Commons license. If using this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper:
Uban, Ana Sabina, and Liviu P. Dinu. "Automatically Building a Multilingual Lexicon of False Friends With No Supervision." In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 3001-3007. 2020.
Other relevant work:
Uban, Ana, Alina Maria Ciobanu, and Liviu P. Dinu. "Studying Laws of Semantic Divergence across Languages using Cognate Sets." In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pp. 161-166. 2019.