Cognate mapping
Stefan Schulz, Kornél Markó, Eduardo Sbrissia, Percy Nohama, Udo Hahn · 2004
We deal with the automated acquisition of a Spanish medical subword lexicon from an already existing Portuguese seed lexicon. Using two non-parallel monolingual corpora we determined Spanish lexeme candidates from Portuguese seed lexicon entries by heuristic cognate mapping. We validated the emergent lexical translation hypotheses by determining the similarity of fixed-window context vectors on the basis of Portuguese and Spanish text corpora.