Estimating word translation probabilities from unrelated monolingual corpora using the EM algorithm (2000)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
| Citations: | 26 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Knight00estimatingword,
author = {Kevin Knight},
title = {Estimating word translation probabilities from unrelated monolingual corpora using the EM algorithm},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2000},
pages = {711--715}
}
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Abstract
Selecting the right word translation among several options in the lexicon is a core problem for machine translation. We present a novel approach to this problem that can be trained using only unrelated monolingual corpora and a lexicon. By estimating word translation probabilities using the EM algorithm, we extend upon target language modeling. We construct a word translation model for 3830 German and 6147 English noun tokens, with very promising results. 1.
