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Analyzing methods for improving precision of pivot based bilingual dictionaries

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Xabier Saralegi,

Iker Manterola,

Iñaki San VicenteAuthors Info & Claims

EMNLP '11: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Pages 846 - 856

Published: 27 July 2011 Publication History

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An A-C bilingual dictionary can be inferred by merging A-B and B-C dictionaries using B as pivot. However, polysemous pivot words often produce wrong translation candidates. This paper analyzes two methods for pruning wrong candidates: one based on exploiting the structure of the source dictionaries, and the other based on distributional similarity computed from comparable corpora. As both methods depend exclusively on easily available resources, they are well suited to less resourced languages. We studied whether these two techniques complement each other given that they are based on different paradigms. We also researched combining them by looking for the best adequacy depending on various application scenarios.

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EMNLP '11: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

July 2011

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ISBN:9781937284114

General Chair:
Paola Merlo
University of Geneva
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Regina Barzilay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mark Johnson
Macquarie University

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Published: 27 July 2011

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Nasution AMurakami YIshida T(2017)A Generalized Constraint Approach to Bilingual Dictionary Induction for Low-Resource Language FamiliesACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing10.1145/313881517:2(1-29)Online publication date: 13-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3138815
Wushouer MLin DIshida THirayama K(2015)A Constraint Approach to Pivot-Based Bilingual Dictionary InductionACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing10.1145/272314415:1(1-26)Online publication date: 21-Nov-2015
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Jagarlamudi JDaumé HTsujii JHenderson JPasca M(2012)Regularized interlingual projectionsProceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning10.5555/2390948.2390951(12-23)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2390948.2390951

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