Electronic bilingual lexicons are crucial for machine translation, cross-lingual information retrieval and speech recognition. For low-density languages, however, the availability of electronic bilingual lexicons is questionable. One solution is to acquire electronic lexicons from printed bilingual dictionaries. While manual data entry is a possibility, automatic acquisition of lexicons from sc...

Abstract It is well established that L2 acquisition faster when the more closely related to learner’s L1. In current study we investigated whether language similarity has a comparable facilitative effect in early simultaneous bilingual children. The between each child’s two languages was determined using phonological and typological scales. We compared vocabulary size of toddlers learning diffe...

This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentencealigned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are first aligned in syntactic structure by combining English parse trees with a statistical bilingual language model. Chinese bracketing knowledge is then extracted automatically. The preliminary experiments show automatical...

Various successful methods for synonym acquisition are based on comparing context vectors acquired from a monolingual corpus. However, a domain-specific corpus might be limited in size and, as a consequence, a query term’s context vector can be sparse. Furthermore, even terms in a domain-specific corpus are sometimes ambiguous, which makes it desirable to be able to find the synonyms related to...