@inproceedings{bloodgood-strauss-2017-acquisition,
title = "Acquisition of Translation Lexicons for Historically Unwritten Languages via Bridging Loanwords",
author = "Bloodgood, Michael and
Strauss, Benjamin",
editor = "Sharoff, Serge and
Zweigenbaum, Pierre and
Rapp, Reinhard",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora",
month = aug,
year = "2017",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-2504/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-2504",
pages = "21--25",
abstract = "With the advent of informal electronic communications such as social media, colloquial languages that were historically unwritten are being written for the first time in heavily code-switched environments. We present a method for inducing portions of translation lexicons through the use of expert knowledge in these settings where there are approximately zero resources available other than a language informant, potentially not even large amounts of monolingual data. We investigate inducing a Moroccan Darija-English translation lexicon via French loanwords bridging into English and find that a useful lexicon is induced for human-assisted translation and statistical machine translation."
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%T Acquisition of Translation Lexicons for Historically Unwritten Languages via Bridging Loanwords
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%Y Rapp, Reinhard
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Markdown (Informal)
[Acquisition of Translation Lexicons for Historically Unwritten Languages via Bridging Loanwords](https://aclanthology.org/W17-2504/) (Bloodgood & Strauss, BUCC 2017)
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