Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm
Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm
Philipp Koehn,Kevin Knight
2000 · DBLP: conf/aaai/KoehnK00
91 Citations
TLDR
A novel approach to word translation probabilities using the EM algorithm is presented, which extends upon target language modeling and constructs a word translation model for 3830 German and 6147 English noun tokens, with very promising results.