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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

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) 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

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

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

Recent embedding-based methods in unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction have shown good results, but generally have not leveraged orthographic (spelling) information, which can be helpful for pairs of related languages. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Parker Riley , Daniel Gildea

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

Semi-supervision is a promising paradigm for Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) with limited annotations. However, previous semisupervised methods do not fully utilize the knowledge hidden in annotated and nonannotated data, which hinders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Xu Zhao , Zihao Wang , Hao Wu , Yong Zhang

Recently unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) without any parallel corpus has attracted much research interest. One of the crucial parts in methods for the BLI task is the matching procedure. Previous works impose a too strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Xu Zhao , Zihao Wang , Hao Wu , Yong Zhang

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 word lexicons are crucial tools for multilingual natural language understanding and machine translation tasks, as they facilitate the mapping of words in one language to their synonyms in another language. To achieve this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Ekaterina Artemova , Barbara Plank

Recent efforts in cross-lingual word embedding (CLWE) learning have predominantly focused on fully unsupervised approaches that project monolingual embeddings into a shared cross-lingual space without any cross-lingual signal. The lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Ivan Vulić , Goran Glavaš , Roi Reichart , Anna Korhonen

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

Bilingual Word Embeddings (BWEs) are one of the cornerstones of cross-lingual transfer of NLP models. They can be built using only monolingual corpora without supervision leading to numerous works focusing on unsupervised BWEs. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Silvia Severini , Viktor Hangya , Masoud Jalili Sabet , Alexander Fraser , Hinrich Schütze

We consider the problem of aligning two sets of continuous word representations, corresponding to languages, to a common space in order to infer a bilingual lexicon. It was recently shown that it is possible to infer such lexicon, without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Paul Garnier , Gauthier Guinet

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

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

Recent work has shown that, while large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong word translation or bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) capabilities in few-shot setups, they still cannot match the performance of 'traditional' mapping-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yaoyiran Li , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

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
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