The method exploits the idea of relating correspondences in bilingual wordlists to translational equivalence associations in bitexts through the employment of models developed in the context of statistical machine translation, The second task addressed in this paper is the identification of cognates on the basis of the discovered correspondences.
the main idea is to induce a model of sound correspondence in a bilingual wordlist, in the same way as one induces a model of translational equivalence among words in a parallel corpus.