Retrieving Bilingual Verb-Noun Collocations by Integrating Cross-Language Category Hierarchies

This paper presents a method of retrieving bilingual collocations of a verb and its objective noun from cross-lingual documents with similar contents. Relevant documents are obtained by integrating crosslanguage hierarchies. The results showed a 15.1% improvement over the baseline nonhierarchy model, and a 6.0% improvement over use of relevant documents retrieved from a single hierarchy. Moreover, we found that some of the retrieved collocations were domain-specific.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamashita
• Keywords: Baseline Nonhierarchy Model, Bilingual Collocations, COLING 2008, Computational Linguistics, Relevant Documents