Using collocations from comparable corpora to find translation equivalents

Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley


Abstract
In this paper we present a tool for finding appropriate translation equivalents for words from the general lexicon using comparable corpora. For a phrase in the source language the tool suggests arange of possible expressions used in similar contexts in target language corpora. In the paper we discuss the method and present results of human evaluation of the performance of the tool.
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L06-1101
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/190_pdf.pdf
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Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, and Anthony Hartley. 2006. Using collocations from comparable corpora to find translation equivalents. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Using collocations from comparable corpora to find translation equivalents (Sharoff et al., LREC 2006)
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