Common French Word

An Common French Word is a Common Word within the French Lexicon.

• AKA: French Common Word.
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• Example(s):
  • “nous”.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • “hidden Markov model”, Technical Term.
  • “we”, an English Common Word.
  • “The Olympic Games”, a Named Entity.
• See: French Language.

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References

1991

• (Brown et al., 1991) ⇒ Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Robert L. Mercer. (1991). “Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Methods.” In: Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 1991) doi:10.3115/981344.981378
  • We used the flip-flop algorithm in a pilot experiment in which we assigned two senses to each of the 500 most common English words and two senses to each of the 200 most common French words.
  • Since the entropy of the translation of a common word can be as high as five bits, there is reason to hope that using more senses will further improve the performance of our system.

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