The present paper addresses the attitudes of Saudi students toward using English dictionaries at Albaha University. A sample 64 majors in College Science and Arts Almandaq took part this study. descriptive quantitative approach was implemented 24-item questionnaire applied study to collect data. Data analysis conducted SPSS. Findings revealed that while most participants used bilingual dictiona...

An A-C bilingual dictionary can be inferred by merging A-B and B-C dictionaries using B as pivot. However, polysemous pivot words often produce wrong translation candidates. This paper analyzes two methods for pruning wrong candidates: one based on exploiting the structure of the source dictionaries, and the other based on distributional similarity computed from comparable corpora. As both meth...

We propose a novel method for inducing monolingual semantic hierarchies and sense clusters from numerous foreign-language-to-English bilingual dictionaries. The method exploits patterns of non-transitivity in translations across multiple languages. No complex or hierarchical structure is assumed or used in the input dictionaries: each is initially parsed into the “lowest common denominator” for...

In this paper we present an automatic, language-independent approach to extend an existing wordnet by recycling existing freely available bilingual resources, such as machine-readable dictionaries and on-line encyclopaedias. The approach is applied to Slovene and French. The words extracted from the bilingual resources are assigned one or several synset ids based on a classifier that relies on ...

This paper presents how we adapted a website search engine for cross language information retrieval, using the Uplug word alignment tool for parallel corpora.We first studied the monolingual search queries posed by the visitors of the website of the Nordic council containing five different languages. In order to compare how well different types of bilingual dictionaries covered the most common ...

The information available in languages other than English on the World Wide Web is increasing significantly. To cross language boundaries between different languages, dictionaries are the most typical tools. However, the general-purpose dictionary is less sensitive in genre and domain and it is impractical to manually construct tailored bilingual dictionaries or sophisticated multilingual thesa...

The availability of machine-readable bilingual linguistic resources is crucial not only for machine translation but also for other applications such as cross-lingual information retrieval. However, the building of such resources demands extensive manual work. This paper describes a methodology to build automatically bilingual dictionaries and transfer rules by extracting knowledge from word-ali...

Word alignment in texts translated to different languages is used in various applications such as cross-language information retrieval. To search for equivalent words in text translations various statistical methods, methods based on position of words in phrases and methods based on bilingual dictionaries are used. However it is very difficult to use these methods in languages with big morpholo...

The automatic compilation of bilingual dictionaries from comparable corpora has been successful for single-word terms (SWTs), but remains disappointed for multi-word terms (MWTs). The increase of coverage of bilingual dictionary thanks to compositional translation improved the results, but still shows some limits for MWTs of different syntactic structures. In this paper, we propose to bridge th...