Bilingual Synonym Identification with Spelling Variations.
Takashi Tsunakawa, Jun’ichi Tsujii · 2008
This paper proposes a method for identify-ing synonymous relations in a bilingual lex-icon, which is a set of translation-equivalent term pairs. We train a classifier for identi-fying those synonymous relations by using spelling variations as main clues. We com-pared two approaches: the direct identifi-cation of bilingual synonym pairs, and the merger of two monolingual synonyms. We showed that our approach achieves a high pair-wise precision and recall, and outper-forms the baseline method. 1