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Cognate mapping: a heuristic strategy for the semi-supervised acquisition of a Spanish lexicon from a Portuguese seed lexicon

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Kornél Markó,

Eduardo Sbrissia,

Udo HahnAuthors Info & Claims

COLING '04: Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics

Pages 813 - es

https://doi.org/10.3115/1220355.1220472

Published: 23 August 2004 Publication History

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We deal with the automated acquisition of a Spanish medical subword lexicon from an already existing Portuguese seed lexicon. Using two non-parallel monolingual corpora we determined Spanish lexeme candidates from Portuguese seed lexicon entries by heuristic cognate mapping. We validated the emergent lexical translation hypotheses by determining the similarity of fixed-window context vectors on the basis of Portuguese and Spanish text corpora.

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