Parallel text acquisition from the Web is an attractive way for augmenting statistical models (e.g., machine translation, crosslingual document retrieval) with domain representative data. The basis for obtaining such data is a collection of pairs of bilingual Web sites or pages. In this work, we propose a crawling strategy that locates bilingual Web sites by constraining the visitation policy o...

Usage-based approaches suggest that children gradually build abstract syntactic patterns, called constructions, through processes of abstraction and schematization from the input they receive. Bilingual have challenge learning two sets non-equivalent constructions when their constructicon. This can result in deviations monolinguals, which are commonly referred to as transfer. Targeting expressi...