@inproceedings{hauer-etal-2017-bootstrapping,
    title = "Bootstrapping Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction",
    author = "Hauer, Bradley  and
      Nicolai, Garrett  and
      Kondrak, Grzegorz",
    editor = "Lapata, Mirella  and
      Blunsom, Phil  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/E17-2098/",
    pages = "619--624",
    abstract = "The task of unsupervised lexicon induction is to find translation pairs across monolingual corpora. We develop a novel method that creates seed lexicons by identifying cognates in the vocabularies of related languages on the basis of their frequency and lexical similarity. We apply bidirectional bootstrapping to a method which learns a linear mapping between context-based vector spaces. Experimental results on three language pairs show consistent improvement over prior work."
}