This paper presents a novel system for sub-sentential alignment of bilingual sentence pairs, however few, using readily-available machine-readable bilingual dictionaries. Performance is evaluated against an existing gold-standard parallel corpus where word alignments are annotated, showing results that are a considerable improvement on a comparable system and on GIZA++ performance for the same ...

Bilingual dictionaries define word equivalents from one language to another, thus acting as an important bridge between languages. No bilingual dictionary is complete since languages are in a constant state of change. Additionally, dictionaries are unlikely to achieve complete coverage of all language terms. This paper investigates methods for extending dictionaries using non-aligned corpora, b...

This paper presents 3 sets of OpenLogos resources, namely the English-German, the English-French, and the English-Italian bilingual dictionaries. In addition to the usual information on part-of-speech, gender, and number for nouns, offered by most dictionaries currently available, OpenLogos bilingual dictionaries have some distinctive features that make them unique: they contain cross-language ...

This paper describes NATools, a toolkit to process, analyze and extract translation resources from Parallel Corpora. It includes tools like a sentence-aligner, a probabilistic translation dictionaries extractor, word-aligner, a corpus server, a set of tools to query corpora and dictionaries, as well as a set of tools to extract bilingual resources.

In this article, we propose a method to extract translation equivalents with similar spelling from comparable corpora. The method was applied on Wikipedia to extract a large amount of PortugueseSpanish bilingual terminological pairs that were not found in existing dictionaries. The resulting bilingual lexicons consists of more than 27, 000 new pairs of lemmas and multiwords, with about 92% accu...

We present a simple and efficient approach for deriving bilingual dictionaries from sentence-aligned parallel text by extending the notion of co-occurrences to a cross-lingual setting. Dictionaries are evaluated against gold standards and manually; the analysis accounts for frequency and corpus size effects.

Information exists on the Web in a number of languages. This situation has given rise to new line of research called Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), treating the problem of finding a document written in one language via a query written in another language. One of the important resources needed for this problem is set of bilingual dictionaries for producing queries in new languages....

Bilingual machine readable dictionaries are important and indispensable information resources for cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, and so on. In this paper, we describe a bilingual dictionary acquisition system which extracts translations from non-parallel but comparable corpora of a specific academic domain and disambiguates the extracted translations. We also experim...

Bilingual machine-readable dictionaries are knowledge resources useful in many automatic tasks. However, compared to monolingual computational lexicons like WordNet, bilingual dictionaries typically provide a lower amount of structured information such as lexical and semantic relations, and often do not cover the entire range of possible translations for a word of interest. In this paper we pre...

This paper proposes a method to build bilingual dictionaries for specific domains defined by a parallel corpora. The proposed method is based on an original method that is not domain specific. Both the original and the proposed methods are constructed with previously available natural language processing tools. Therefore, this paper contribution resides in the choice and parametrization of the ...