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Extracting Synonyms from Bilingual Dictionaries
We present our progress in developing a novel algorithm to extract synonyms
from bilingual dictionaries. Identification and usage of synonyms play a
significant role in improving the performance of information access
applications. The idea is to construct a translation graph from translation
pairs, then to extract and consolidate cyclic paths to form bilingual sets of
synonyms. The initial evaluation of this algorithm illustrates promising
results in extracting Arabic-English bilingual synonyms. In the evaluation, we
first converted the synsets in the Arabic WordNet into translation pairs (i.e.,
losing word-sense memberships). Next, we applied our algorithm to rebuild these
synsets. We compared the original and extracted synsets obtaining an F-Measure
of 82.3% and 82.1% for Arabic and English synsets extraction, respectively.Comment: In Proceedings - 11th International Global Wordnet Conference
(GWC2021). Global Wordnet Association (2021