Using Bilingual Segments in Generating Word-to-word Translations

Kavitha Mahesh, Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Luís Gomes


Abstract
We defend that bilingual lexicons automatically extracted from parallel corpora, whose entries have been meanwhile validated by linguists and classified as correct or incorrect, should constitute a specific parallel corpora. And, in this paper, we propose to use word-to-word translations to learn morph-units (comprising of bilingual stems and suffixes) from those bilingual lexicons for two language pairs L1-L2 and L1-L3 to induce a bilingual lexicon for the language pair L2-L3, apart from also learning morph-units for this other language pair. The applicability of bilingual morph-units in L1-L2 and L1-L3 is examined from the perspective of pivot-based lexicon induction for language pair L2-L3 with L1 as bridge. While the lexicon is derived by transitivity, the correspondences are identified based on previously learnt bilingual stems and suffixes rather than surface translation forms. The induced pairs are validated using a binary classifier trained on morphological and similarity-based features using an existing, automatically acquired, manually validated bilingual translation lexicon for language pair L2-L3. In this paper, we discuss the use of English (EN)-French (FR) and English (EN)-Portuguese (PT) lexicon of word-to-word translations in generating word-to-word translations for the language pair FR-PT with EN as pivot language. Generated translations are filtered out first using an SVM-based FR-PT classifier and then are manually validated.
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W16-4508
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Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra6)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Patrik Lambert, Bogdan Babych, Kurt Eberle, Rafael E. Banchs, Reinhard Rapp, Marta R. Costa-jussà
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HyTra
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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61–71
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Kavitha Mahesh, Gabriel Pereira Lopes, and Luís Gomes. 2016. Using Bilingual Segments in Generating Word-to-word Translations. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra6), pages 61–71, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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