[PDF] Top 20 A Geometric View on Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora

... derived from the data used in the multi- lingual track of CLEF2003, corresponding to the newswire of months May 1994 and December 1994 of the Los Angeles Times (1994, English) and Le Monde (1994, ...our ... See full document

... documents from these two corpora that best fit the initial corpora by computing a similarity measure between models of each document and the initial corpus in the corresponding ...corpus from ... See full document

... parable corpora for bilingual lexicon extraction (Fung and McKeown, 1997; Fung and Yee, 1998; Rapp, 1999; D´ejean et ...and comparable corpora range from lowly ... See full document

... in bilingual lexicon extraction is focused on another kind of bilingual ...These corpora, known as comparable cor- pora, are comprised of texts sharing common fea- tures such as ... See full document

... of bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora is : the bilingual dictionary, which is considered as a bridge between two ...this lexicon, except its ... See full document

... Bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable cor- pora has received considerable attention since the 1990s (Rapp, 1995; Fung, 1998; Fung and Lo, 1998; Peters and Picchi, 1998; Rapp, ... See full document

... for bilingual lexicon extrac- tion from comparable ...the extraction of low frequency words showed significant im- provement while using distance-based av- eraging (Pekar et ...for ... See full document

... for bilingual lexicon ...specialized comparable corpora indicate that the combination of similarity metrics leads to a better performance than two state-of-the-art ...ized comparable ... See full document

... that comparable corpora should be balanced for bilingual lexicon extraction task is ...cialized comparable corpora, especially when in- volving the English language for ... See full document

... In bilingual lexicon extraction, the context-based approach introduced by Rapp (1995) is widely used (Fung, 1995; Diab and Finch, 2000; among ...learning from comparable corpora ... See full document

... Bilingual lexicon is a basic resource in the field of Natural Language Processing such as machine translation and cross-language information retrieval (AbduI-Rauf et ...Parallel corpora (Och and Ney, ... See full document

... 376 high-frequency words. Table 5 shows that per- formance for low-frequency words is much worse than that for high-frequency words. This is because translation of high-frequency words utilizes abun- dant and reliable ... See full document

... seed lexicon than cog- nates but their quality is much lower (by 22% on ...in bilingual lexicon extraction tasks for closely re- lated ...help bilingual lexicon ...of ... See full document

... meanings. From this it can be inferred that if two words co-occur more frequently than expected in a corpus of one lang- uage, then their translations into another lang- uage will also co-occur more frequently ... See full document

... information. From the aforementioned results we can see that a model based on simple word co-occurrence highly outperforms the “Context Heterogeneity” model in almost all the ... See full document

... icon extraction from comparable corpora is a dis- tributional hypothesis, stating that words which are translation of each other are likely to appear in simi- lar context across ...departing ... See full document

... It is a known fact in the field of lexical semantics that some senses of polysemous words can be easily distinguished one from another, and are also used in very different ways, which is why they are relatively ... See full document

... for bilingual lexicon extraction presented in the paper is directed towards extraction of only highly reliable word translation ...BLE from parallel data, we have proved that SampLEX ... See full document

... of bilingual lexicon extraction from com- parable corpora, and also known as the standard approach, relies on the simple observation that a word and its translation tend to appear in ... See full document

... Bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable cor- pora has shown substantial growth since the sem- inal work of Fung (1995) and Rapp ...parable corpora, which are comprised of ... See full document