Building Specialized Bilingual Lexicons Using Word Sense Disambiguation
Dhouha Bouamor, Nasredine Semmar, Pierre Zweigenbaum · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2013
This paper presents an extension of the standard approach used for bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora. We study the ambiguity problem revealed by the seed bilingual dictionary used to translate context vectors and augment the standard approach by a Word Sense Disambiguation process. Our aim is to identify the translations of words that are more likely to give the best representation of words in the target language. On two specialized French-English and RomanianEnglish comparable corpora, empirical experimental results show that the proposed method consistently outperforms the standard approach.