Recently more and more people communicate through the Internet, and machine translators are used as communication tools between peoples who cannot speak their partners' mother language. Since English is a hub language of development of language resources like machine translators or bilingual dictionaries, combining multiple machine translators via English enables intercultural communication and...

To ESTABLISH effective bilingual glossaries for mechanical translation will require some sort of solution for three problems: how to predict the words that will occur in the foreignlanguage contexts to be translated: how to predict the English meaning of the words in those contexts; and how to reduce to a minimum the searching time required to locate any item in the glossary. Let us recognize a...

This paper considers the problem of unsupervised semantic lexicon acquisition. We introduce a fully automatic approach which exploits parallel corpora, relies on shallow text properties, and is relatively inexpensive. Given the English FrameNet lexicon, our method exploits word alignments to generate frame candidate lists for new languages, which are subsequently pruned automatically using a sm...

This paper presents a widely applicable method for extracting bilingual expressions from non-parallel corpora. The algorithm first collects word sequences as candidates for translation equivalents that match given patterns of word sequences from each corpus. Then, translation equivalents are selected from these candidates by aligning component words from within word sequences. We show the resul...

This paper presents a set of programs to facilitate the creation of WordNet from bilingual dictionaries following the expand model. The programs are written in Python and are therefore multiplatform. The programs are very easy to use although they don’t have a graphical user interface. These programs have been successfully used in the Know2 Project for the creation of Catalan and Spanish WordNe...

This article presents a bilingual question answering system, which is able to process questions and documents both in French and in English. Two cross-lingual strategies are described and evaluated. First, we study the contribution of biterms translation, and the influence of the completion of the translation dictionaries. Then, we propose a strategy for transferring the question analysis from ...

We participated in the SLIR, BLIR(PLIR) and MLIR subtasks of the NTCIR-5 CLIR task. Our IR system uses language models for document scoring and query expansion, and can handle four languages; Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English. The system utilizes multiple language resources (bilingual dictionaries, parallel corpora and machine translation systems). We attempted to use some techniques includ...

Automatic translations of WordNet have been tried to many different target languages. JAWS is such a translation for French nouns using bilingual dictionaries and a syntactic language model. We improve its precision and coverage, complete it with translations of other parts of speech and enhance its evaluation method. The result is named WoNeF. We produce three final translations balanced betwe...