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Learning Spanish-Galician Translation Equivalents Using a Comparable Corpus and a Bilingual Dictionary

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2008)

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So far, research on extraction of translation equivalents from comparable, non-parallel corpora has not been very popular. The main reason was the poor results when compared to those obtained from aligned parallel corpora. The method proposed in this paper, relying on seed patterns generated from external bilingual dictionaries, allows us to achieve similar results to those from parallel corpus.In this way, the huge amount of comparable corpora available via Web can be viewed as a never-ending source of lexicographic information. In this paper, we describe the experiments performed on a comparable, Spanish-Galician corpus.

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Gamallo Otero, P., Pichel Campos, J.R. (2008). Learning Spanish-Galician Translation Equivalents Using a Comparable Corpus and a Bilingual Dictionary. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_36

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