Finding translations for low-frequency words in comparable corpora

Machine Translation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 247-266

  Pekar, Viktor ^a   Mitkov, Ruslan ^a   Blagoev, Dimitar ^b   Mulloni, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^c Expert System   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comparable corpora; Data sparseness; Distributional similarity; Lexical acquisition; Translational equivalents

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPARABLE CORPORA; DATA SPARSENESS; DISTRIBUTIONAL SIMILARITY; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; TRANSLATIONAL EQUIVALENTS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 41149169490     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-007-9029-7     Document Type: Article

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