Discovering Missing Wikipedia Inter-language Links by means of Cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation

Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste, Martine De Cock

Abstract
Wikipedia pages typically contain inter-language links to the corresponding pages in other languages. These links, however, are often incomplete. This paper describes a set of experiments in which the viability of discovering such missing inter-language links for ambiguous nouns by means of a cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation approach is investigated. The input for the inter-language link detection system is a set of Dutch pages for a given ambiguous noun and the output of the system is a set of links to the corresponding pages in three target languages (viz. French, Spanish and Italian). The experimental results show that although it is a very challenging task, the system succeeds to detect missing inter-language links between Wikipedia documents for a manually labeled test set. The final goal of the system is to provide a human editor with a list of possible missing links that should be manually verified.
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L12-1278
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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841–846
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/508_Paper.pdf
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Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste, and Martine De Cock. 2012. Discovering Missing Wikipedia Inter-language Links by means of Cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 841–846, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Discovering Missing Wikipedia Inter-language Links by means of Cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation (Lefever et al., LREC 2012)
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