Translation lexicon acquisition from bilingual dictionaries
David Doermann, Huanfeng Ma, Burcu Karagol-Ayan, Douglas W. Oard · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2001
Bilingual dictionaries hold great potential as a source of lexical resources for training automated systems for optical character recognition, machine translation and cross-language information retrieval. In this work we describe a system for extracting term lexicons from printed copies of bilingual dictionaries. We describe our approach to page and definition segmentation and entry parsing. We have used the approach to parse a number of dictionaries and demonstrate the results for retrieval using a French-English Dictionary to generate a translation lexicon and a corpus of English queries applied to French documents to evaluation cross-language IR.