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In order to contribute to the standardization of the Tamazight language, we study in this article, the linguistic similarity between the different variants of the Tamazight language (Tamazight of Middle Atlas, Tachelhit, and Tarifit) using the most famous distances in the field of automatic natural language processing (NLP): the Jaro-Winkler distance and the Levenshtein distance. The first results from the application of these distances on our own corpus; based on equivalent words (from the lexicographic point of view), show that the similarity between the different variants of the Tamazight language is very obvious. This brings us to confirm the assumptions formulated in terms of linguistic or phonetic equivalence on certain characters or phone.
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Mohamed, I., Jaddar, A., Elmiad, A.K., Kouaiba, G. (2020). Comparative Study of Methods Measuring Lexicographic Similarity Among Tamazight Language Variants. In: Serrhini, M., Silva, C., Aljahdali, S. (eds) Innovation in Information Systems and Technologies to Support Learning Research. EMENA-ISTL 2019. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36778-7_42
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