Bootstrapping Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Bradley Hauer, Garrett Nicolai, Grzegorz Kondrak


Abstract
The task of unsupervised lexicon induction is to find translation pairs across monolingual corpora. We develop a novel method that creates seed lexicons by identifying cognates in the vocabularies of related languages on the basis of their frequency and lexical similarity. We apply bidirectional bootstrapping to a method which learns a linear mapping between context-based vector spaces. Experimental results on three language pairs show consistent improvement over prior work.
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E17-2098
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Mirella Lapata, Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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619–624
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Bradley Hauer, Garrett Nicolai, and Grzegorz Kondrak. 2017. Bootstrapping Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 619–624, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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