This paper describes the procedures involved in developing EXEC, a web-based system which can automatically extract English collocations and their Chinese-English bilingual examples from parallel corpora. The system draws on statistics, dependency parsing, and Chinese-English parallel corpora of more than 13 million English words and 27 million Chinese characters. By taking a word as well as th...

This paper describes our experiments and results in the NTCIR-9 Chinese-to-English Patent Translation Task. A series of open source software were integrated to build a statistical machine translation model for the task. Various Chinese segmentation, additional resources, and training corpus preprocessing were then tried based on this model. As a result, more than 20 experiments were conducted t...

Bilingual dictionaries are the key component of the cross-lingual similarity estimation methods. Usually such dictionary generation is accomplished by manual or automatic means. Automatic generation approaches include to exploit parallel or comparable data to derive dictionary entries. Such approaches require large amount of bilingual data in order to produce good quality dictionary. Many time ...

The paper examines the issue of indicating lexeme markedness in bilingual dictionaries. Markedness goes beyond denotative meaning lexemes and is considered to be information referring lexical knowledge that must given dictionary user order for their selection adequate communicative situation they might find themselves in. This comprises, example, data on stylistic, temporal, regional units. In ...