A method is presented for splitting compound words into their constituents based on cognate words in the other language of a parallel corpus. A minor extension to the method using a bilingual lexicon (which may be statistically derived from the corpus) allows the decompounding of words that do not have cognates in the other language. Further, the algorithm can produce, as a by-product, a mappin...

The aim of this thesis proposal is to perform bilingual lexicon extraction for cases in which small parallel corpora are available and it is not easy to obtain monolingual corpus for at least one of the languages. Moreover, the languages are typologically distant and there is no bilingual seed lexicon available. We focus on the language pair Spanish-Nahuatl, we propose to work with morpheme bas...

This paper discusses a follow-up study aimed at investigating the extraction of word relations from a medical parallel corpus in the field of Psychology. Word relations are extracted in order to create a bilingual lexicon for cross lingual question answering between Swedish and English on a medical portal. Six different variants of the corpus were utilized: word inflections with and without POS...

We describe a set of evaluation techniques applied to domain tuning of bilingual lexicons for machine translation. Our overall objective is to translate a domain-specific document in a foreign language (in this case, Chinese) to English. First, we perform an intrinsic evaluation of the effectiveness of our domain-tuning techniques by comparing our domain-tuned lexicon to a manually constructed ...

This paper introduces a pilot study aimed at investigating the extraction of word relations from a sample of a medical parallel corpus in the field of Psychology. Word relations are extracted in order to create a bilingual lexicon for cross lingual question answering between Swedish and English. Four different variants of the sample corpus were utilized: word inflections with and without POS ta...

This experiment tests a simple, scalable, and effective approach to building a domain-specific translation lexicon using distributional statistics over parallellized bilingual corpora. A bilingual lexicon is extracted from aligned Swedish-French data, used to translate CLEF topics from Swedish to French, which resulting French queries are then in turn used to retrieve documents from the French ...

Smoothing is a central issue in language modeling and a prior step in different natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, less attention has been given to it for bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora. If a first work to improve the extraction of low frequency words showed significant improvement while using distance-based averaging (Pekar et al., 2006), no investigation o...

How does the mental lexicon, the network of learned words in our semantic memory, change in old age? To address this question, we employ a new network inference method to infer networks from verbal fluency data of a group of younger and older adults. We find that older adults produce more unique words in verbal fluency tasks than younger adults. In line with recent theorizing, this suggests a l...

A bilingual concept lexicon is of significance for Information Extraction (IE), Machine Translation (MT), Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and the like. Myanmar-English Bilingual WordNet like Lexicon (MEBWL) is developed to fulfill the requirements of Language Acquisition (LA). However, it is reasonably difficult to build such a lexicon is quite challenging in time and cost consuming. To overcom...

Factorized coordinated predicative structures prove to be a problem to transfer whenever the bilingual lexicon suggests a non-isomorphic translation for one of the predicative conjuncts, in particular a solution that requires incorporation of the predicative description into the translation of the source (support) verb. The problem disappears if the factorized structure is ’multiplied out’, res...