Automatic Construction of Clean Broad-Coverage Translation Lexicons

dc.creatorMelamed, I. Dan
dc.date1996-08-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:10:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:10:34Z
dc.descriptionWord-level translational equivalences can be extracted from parallel texts by surprisingly simple statistical techniques. However, these techniques are easily fooled by {\em indirect associations} --- pairs of unrelated words whose statistical properties resemble those of mutual translations. Indirect associations pollute the resulting translation lexicons, drastically reducing their precision. This paper presents an iterative lexicon cleaning method. On each iteration, most of the remaining incorrect lexicon entries are filtered out, without significant degradation in recall. This lexicon cleaning technique can produce translation lexicons with recall and precision both exceeding 90\%, as well as dictionary-sized translation lexicons that are over 99\% correct.
dc.descriptionPostScript file, 10 pages. To appear in Proceedings of AMTA-96
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9607037
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9607037
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151384
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleAutomatic Construction of Clean Broad-Coverage Translation Lexicons
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