Automatic Acquisition of a High-Precision Translation Lexicon from Parallel Chinese-English Corpora
Zhao-Ming Gao · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1998
This paper presents a hybrid approach to deriving a translation lexicon from unaligned parallel Chinese-English corpora. Two types of information, namely, proximity and document-external distributions of word pairs, are proposed to enhance the precision of the translation lexicon derived from statistical and dictionary-based methods. The former can identify translations of Chinese compounds, while the latter can filter out spurious word correspondences. Both methods achieve more than 94 % precision. 1.