Identifying Word Translations in Non-Parallel Texts
Identifying Word Translations in Non-Parallel Texts
R. Rapp
1995 · DOI: 10.3115/981658.981709
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 369 Citations
TLDR
This study suggests that the identification of word translations should also be possible with non-parallel and even unrelated texts.
Abstract
Common algorithms for sentence and word-alignment allow the automatic identification of word translations from parallel texts. This study suggests that the identification of word translations should also be possible with non-parallel and even unrelated texts. The method proposed is based on the assumption that there is a correlation between the patterns of word co-occurrences in texts of different languages.