Acquisition of Phrase-level Bilingual Correspondence using Dependency Structure

This paper describes a method to find phraselevel translation patterns from parallel corpora by applying dependency structure analysis. We use statistical dependency parsers to determine dependency relations between base phrases in a seN;ence. Our method is tested with a business expression corpus containing 10000 English Japanese sentence pairs and achieved approximately 90 % accuracy in extracting bilingual correspondences. The result shows that the use of dependency relation helps to acquire interesting translation patterns.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Kaoru Yamamoto, Yuji Matsumoto
• Keywords: COLING 2000, COLING 2008, Dependency Relation, Dependency Structure Analysis, Statistical Dependency Parsers