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Identifying Word Translations in Non-Parallel Texts

cmp-lg 2008-02-03 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

Common algorithms for sentence and word-alignment allow the automatic identification of word translations from parallel texts. This study suggests that the identification of word translations should also be possible with non-parallel and even unrelated texts. The method proposed is based on the assumption that there is a correlation between the patterns of word co-occurrences in texts of different languages.

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@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9505037,
  title  = {Identifying Word Translations in Non-Parallel Texts},
  author = {Reinhard Rapp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9505037},
  year   = {2008}
}

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