Corpus-driven bilingual lexicon extraction

This paper introduces some key aspects of machine translation in order to situate the role of the bilingual lexicon in transfer-based systems. It then discusses the data-driven approach to extracting bilingual knowledge automatically from bilingual texts, tracing the processes of alignment at different levels of granularity. The paper concludes with some suggestions for future work.peer-reviewe

Ridge Regression, Hubness, and Zero-Shot Learning

This paper discusses the effect of hubness in zero-shot learning, when ridge regression is used to find a mapping between the example space to the label space. Contrary to the existing approach, which attempts to find a mapping from the example space to the label space, we show that mapping labels into the example space is desirable to suppress the emergence of hubs in the subsequent nearest neighbor search step. Assuming a simple data model, we prove that the proposed approach indeed reduces hubness. This was verified empirically on the tasks of bilingual lexicon extraction and image labeling: hubness was reduced with both of these tasks and the accuracy was improved accordingly.Comment: To be presented at ECML/PKDD 201

Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora as Metasearch

International audienceIn this article we present a novel way of looking at the problem of automatic acquisition of pairs of translationally equivalent words from comparable corpora. We first present the standard and extended approaches traditionally dedicated to this task. We then reinterpret the extended method, and motivate a novel model to reformulate this approach inspired by the metasearch engines in information retrieval. The empirical results show that performances of our model are always better than the baseline obtained with the extended approach and also competitive with the standard approach

Identification of Fertile Translations in Medical Comparable Corpora: a Morpho-Compositional Approach

This paper defines a method for lexicon in the biomedical domain from comparable corpora. The method is based on compositional translation and exploits morpheme-level translation equivalences. It can generate translations for a large variety of morphologically constructed words and can also generate 'fertile' translations. We show that fertile translations increase the overall quality of the extracted lexicon for English to French translation

Multilingual Lexicon Extraction under Resource-Poor Language Pairs

In general, bilingual and multilingual lexicons are important resources in many natural language processing fields such as information retrieval and machine translation. Such lexicons are usually extracted from bilingual (e.g., parallel or comparable) corpora with external seed dictionaries. However, few such corpora and bilingual seed dictionaries are publicly available for many language pairs such as Korean–French. It is important that such resources for these language pairs be publicly available or easily accessible when a monolingual resource is considered. This thesis presents efficient approaches for extracting bilingual single-/multi-word lexicons for resource-poor language pairs such as Korean–French and Korean–Spanish. The goal of this thesis is to present several efficient methods of extracting translated single-/multi-words from bilingual corpora based on a statistical method. Three approaches for single words and one approach for multi-words are proposed. The first approach is the pivot context-based approach (PCA). The PCA uses a pivot language to connect source and target languages. It builds context vectors from two parallel corpora sharing one pivot language and calculates their similarity scores to choose the best translation equivalents. The approach can reduce the effort required when using a seed dictionary for translation by using parallel corpora rather than comparable corpora. The second approach is the extended pivot context-based approach (EPCA). This approach gathers similar context vectors for each source word to augment its context. The approach assumes that similar vectors can enrich contexts. For example, young and youth can augment the context of baby. In the investigation described here, such similar vectors were collected by similarity measures such as cosine similarity. The third approach for single words uses a competitive neural network algorithm (i.e., self-organizing mapsSOM). The SOM-based approach (SA) uses synonym vectors rather than context vectors to train two different SOMs (i.e., source and target SOMs) in different ways. A source SOM is trained in an unsupervised way, while a target SOM is trained in a supervised way. The fourth approach is the constituent-based approach (CTA), which deals with multi-word expressions (MWEs). This approach reinforces the PCA for multi-words (PCAM). It extracts bilingual MWEs taking all constituents of the source MWEs into consideration. The PCAM 2 identifies MWE candidates by pointwise mutual information first and then adds them to input data as single units in order to use the PCA directly. The experimental results show that the proposed approaches generally perform well for resource-poor language pairs, particularly Korean and French–Spanish. The PCA and SA have demonstrated good performance for such language pairs. The EPCA would not have shown a stronger performance than expected. The CTA performs well even when word contexts are insufficient. Overall, the experimental results show that the CTA significantly outperforms the PCAM. In the future, homonyms (i.e., homographs such as lead or tear) should be considered. In particular, the domains of bilingual corpora should be identified. In addition, more parts of speech such as verbs, adjectives, or adverbs could be tested. In this thesis, only nouns are discussed for simplicity. Finally, thorough error analysis should also be conducted.Abstract List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Multilingual Lexicon Extraction 1.2 Motivations and Goals 1.3 Organization Chapter 2 Background and Literature Review 2.1 Extraction of Bilingual Translations of Single-words 2.1.1 Context-based approach 2.1.2 Extended approach 2.1.3 Pivot-based approach 2.2 Extractiong of Bilingual Translations of Multi-Word Expressions 2.2.1 MWE identification 2.2.2 MWE alignment 2.3 Self-Organizing Maps 2.4 Evaluation Measures Chapter 3 Pivot Context-Based Approach 3.1 Concept of Pivot-Based Approach 3.2 Experiments 3.2.1 Resources 3.2.2 Results 3.3 Summary Chapter 4 Extended Pivot Context-Based Approach 4.1 Concept of Extended Pivot Context-Based Approach 4.2 Experiments 4.2.1 Resources 4.2.2 Results 4.3 Summary Chapter 5 SOM-Based Approach 5.1 Concept of SOM-Based Approach 5.2 Experiments 5.2.1 Resources 5.2.2 Results 5.3 Summary Chapter 6 Constituent-Based Approach 6.1 Concept of Constituent-Based Approach 6.2 Experiments 6.2.1 Resources 6.2.2 Results 6.3 Summary Chapter 7 Conclusions and Future Work 7.1 Conclusions 7.2 Future Work Reference

Bilingual Lexicon Extraction Using a Modified Perceptron Algorithm

전산 언어학 분야에서 병렬 말뭉치와 이중언어 어휘는 기계번역과 교차 정보 탐색 등의 분야에서 중요한 자원으로 사용되고 있다. 예를 들어, 병렬 말뭉치는 기계번역 시스템에서 번역 확률들을 추출하는데 사용된다. 이중언어 어휘는 교차 정보 탐색에서 직접적으로 단어 대 단어 번역을 가능하게 한다. 또한 기계번역 시스템에서 번역 프로세스를 도와주는 역할을 하고 있다. 그리고 학습을 위한 병렬 말뭉치와 이중언어 어휘의 용량이 크면 클수록 기계번역 시스템의 성능이 향상된다. 그러나 이러한 이중언어 어휘를 수동으로, 즉 사람의 힘으로 구축하는 것은 많은 비용과 시간과 노동을 필요로 한다. 이러한 이유들 때문에 이중언어 어휘를 추출하는 연구가 많은 연구자들에게 각광받게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이중언어 어휘를 추출하는 새롭고 효과적인 방법론을 제안한다. 이중언어 어휘 추출에서 가장 많이 다루어지는 벡터 공간 모델을 기반으로 하고, 신경망의 한 종류인 퍼셉트론 알고리즘을 사용하여 이중언어 어휘의 가중치를 반복해서 학습한다. 그리고 반복적으로 학습된 이중언어 어휘의 가중치와 퍼셉트론을 사용하여 최종 이중언어 어휘들을 추출한다. 그 결과, 학습되지 않은 초기의 결과에 비해서 반복 학습된 결과가 평균 3.5%의 정확도 향상을 얻을 수 있었다1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 2.1 Linguistic resources: The text corpora 2.2 A vector space model 2.3 Neural networks: The single layer Perceptron 2.4 Evaluation metrics 3. System Architecture of Bilingual Lexicon Extraction System 3.1 Required linguistic resources 3.2 System architecture 4. Building a Seed Dictionary 4.1 Methodology: Context Based Approach (CBA) 4.2 Experiments and results 4.2.1 Experimental setups 4.2.2 Experimental results 4.3 Discussions 5. Extracting Bilingual Lexicons 4.1 Methodology: Iterative Approach (IA) 4.2 Experiments and results 4.2.1 Experimental setups 4.2.2 Experimental results 4.3 Discussions 6. Conclusions and Future Work

Automatic Bilingual Lexicon Extraction for a Minority Target Language

PACLIC / The University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College Cebu City, Philippines / November 20-22, 200