@inproceedings{wu-yarowsky-2022-known,
    title = "Known Words Will Do: Unknown Concept Translation via Lexical Relations",
    author = "Wu, Winston  and
      Yarowsky, David",
    editor = "Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Liu, Chao-Hong  and
      Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Abbott, Jade  and
      Washington, Jonathan  and
      Oco, Nathaniel  and
      Pirinen, Tommi A  and
      Malykh, Valentin  and
      Logacheva, Varvara  and
      Zhao, Xiaobing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022)",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2022.loresmt-1.3/",
    pages = "15--22",
    abstract = "Translating into low-resource languages is challenging due to the scarcity of training data. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic lexical translation method that bridges through lexical relations including synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, and co-hyponyms. This method, which only requires a dictionary like Wiktionary and a lexical database like WordNet, enables the translation of unknown vocabulary into low-resource languages for which we may only know the translation of a related concept. Experiments on translating a core vocabulary set into 472 languages, most of them low-resource, show the effectiveness of our approach."
}