Panlingual Lexical Translation via Probabilistic Inference

The bare minimum lexical resource required to translate between a pair of languages is a translation dictionary. Unfortunately, dictionaries exist only between a tiny fraction of the 49 million possible language-pairs making machine translation virtually impossible between most of the languages. This paper summarizes the last four years of our research motivated by the vision of panlingual communication. Our research comprises three key steps. First, we compile over 630 freely available dictionaries over the Web and convert this data into a single representation

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni
• Keywords: AAAI 2010, Intelligent Agents, Lexical Resource, Minimum Lexical Resource, Translation Dictionary