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ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
ACCURAT Toolkit for Multi-Level Alignment and Information Extraction from Comparable Corpora
The lack of parallel corpora and linguistic resources for many languages and domains is one of the major obstacles for the further advancement of automated translation. A possible...
Marcis Pinnis, Radu Ion, Dan Stefanescu, Fangzhong...
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
A Statistical Model for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Transliteration Mining
We propose a novel model to automatically extract transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. Our model is efficient, language pair independent and mines transliteration pairs i...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid
EMNLP
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Learning Sentential Paraphrases from Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Text-to-Text Generation
Previous work has shown that high quality phrasal paraphrases can be extracted from bilingual parallel corpora. However, it is not clear whether bitexts are an appropriate resourc...
Juri Ganitkevitch, Chris Callison-Burch, Courtney ...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers
We present a simple method for transferring dependency parsers from source languages with labeled training data to target languages without labeled training data. We first demons...
Ryan T. McDonald, Slav Petrov, Keith Hall
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study on Web Mining of Parallel Data
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
Gum-Won Hong, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou, Hae-Chang Rim
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Acquiring Translation Equivalences of Multiword Expressions by Normalized Correlation Frequencies
In this paper, we present an algorithm for extracting translations of any given multiword expression from parallel corpora. Given a multiword expression to be translated, the meth...
Ming-Hong Bai, Jia-Ming You, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jason...
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
A Cheap and Fast Way to Build Useful Translation Lexicons
The paper presents a statistical approach to automatic building of translation lexicons from parallel corpora. We briefly describe the pre-processing steps, a baseline iterative m...
Dan Tufis
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Extracting Word Sequence Correspondences with Support Vector Machines
This paper proposes a learning and extracting method of word sequence correspondences from non-aligned parallel corpora with Support Vector Machines, which have high ability of th...
Kengo Sato, Hiroaki Saito
IPM
2006
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Automatic extraction of bilingual word pairs using inductive chain learning in various languages
In this paper, we propose a new learning method for extracting bilingual word pairs from parallel corpora in various languages. In cross-language information retrieval, the system...
Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi