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Automatic induction of high-quality dictionaries is essential for building lexical resources, yet low-resource languages and dialects pose several challenges: limited access to annotators, high degree of spelling variations, and poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Robert Litschko , Barbara Plank , Diego Frassinelli

Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) is a core task in multilingual NLP that still, to a large extent, relies on calculating cross-lingual word representations. Inspired by the global paradigm shift in NLP towards Large Language Models (LLMs),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yaoyiran Li , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

In contemporary machine learning approaches to bilingual lexicon induction (BLI), a model learns a mapping between the embedding spaces of a language pair. Recently, retrieve-and-rank approach to BLI has achieved state of the art results on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Harsh Kohli , Helian Feng , Nicholas Dronen , Calvin McCarter , Sina Moeini , Ali Kebarighotbi

Bilingual lexicons map words in one language to their translations in another, and are typically induced by learning linear projections to align monolingual word embedding spaces. In this paper, we show it is possible to produce much higher…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haoyue Shi , Luke Zettlemoyer , Sida I. Wang

Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) is generally based on common domain data to obtain monolingual word embedding, and by aligning the monolingual word embeddings to obtain the cross-lingual embeddings which are used to get the word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Qiuyu Ding , Zhiqiang Cao , Hailong Cao , Tiejun Zhao

Bilingual lexicons play a crucial role in various Natural Language Processing tasks. However, many low-resource languages (LRLs) do not have such lexicons, and due to the same reason, cannot benefit from the supervised Bilingual Lexicon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Charitha Rathnayake , P. R. S. Thilakarathna , Uthpala Nethmini , Rishemjith Kaur , Surangika Ranathunga

Most of the successful and predominant methods for bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) are mapping-based, where a linear mapping function is learned with the assumption that the word embedding spaces of different languages exhibit similar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tasnim Mohiuddin , M Saiful Bari , Shafiq Joty

Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) aims to map words in one language to their translations in another, and is typically through learning linear projections to align monolingual word representation spaces. Two classes of word representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jinpeng Zhang , Baijun Ji , Nini Xiao , Xiangyu Duan , Min Zhang , Yangbin Shi , Weihua Luo

Sans a dwindling number of monolingual embedding studies originating predominantly from the low-resource domains, it is evident that multilingual embedding has become the de facto choice due to its adaptability to the usage of code-mixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kasun Wickramasinghe , Nisansa de Silva

Dialects exhibit a substantial degree of variation due to the lack of a standard orthography. At the same time, the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to process dialects remains largely understudied. To address this gap, we use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Robert Litschko , Verena Blaschke , Diana Burkhardt , Barbara Plank , Diego Frassinelli

Great progress has been made in unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction (UBLI) by aligning the source and target word embeddings independently trained on monolingual corpora. The common assumption of most UBLI models is that the embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hailong Cao , Tiejun Zhao

Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI), where words are translated between two languages, is an important NLP task. While noticeable progress on BLI in rich resource languages using static word embeddings has been achieved. The word translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abdellah El Mekki , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , ElMoatez Billah Nagoudi , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

Bilingual lexicons form a critical component of various natural language processing applications, including unsupervised and semisupervised machine translation and crosslingual information retrieval. We improve bilingual lexicon induction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Kelly Marchisio , Ali Saad-Eldin , Kevin Duh , Carey Priebe , Philipp Koehn

Most existing approaches for unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) depend on good quality static or contextual embeddings requiring large monolingual corpora for both languages. However, unsupervised BLI is most likely to be useful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Niyati Bafna , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Bilingual word embeddings, which representlexicons of different languages in a shared em-bedding space, are essential for supporting se-mantic and knowledge transfers in a variety ofcross-lingual NLP tasks. Existing approachesto training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Weijia Shi , Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Kai-Wei Chang

Dialects represent a significant component of human culture and are found across all regions of the world. In Germany, more than 40% of the population speaks a regional dialect (Adler and Hansen, 2022). However, despite cultural importance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Minh Duc Bui , Carolin Holtermann , Valentin Hofmann , Anne Lauscher , Katharina von der Wense

Machine Translation has made impressive progress in recent years offering close to human-level performance on many languages, but studies have primarily focused on high-resource languages with broad online presence and resources. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wan-Hua Her , Udo Kruschwitz

A recent research line has obtained strong results on bilingual lexicon induction by aligning independently trained word embeddings in two languages and using the resulting cross-lingual embeddings to induce word translation pairs through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

Word translation or bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) is a key cross-lingual task, aiming to bridge the lexical gap between different languages. In this work, we propose a robust and effective two-stage contrastive learning framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yaoyiran Li , Fangyu Liu , Nigel Collier , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

We explore ways of incorporating bilingual dictionaries to enable semi-supervised neural machine translation. Conventional back-translation methods have shown success in leveraging target side monolingual data. However, since the quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sreyashi Nag , Mihir Kale , Varun Lakshminarasimhan , Swapnil Singhavi
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