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Parallel Translations as Sense Discriminators (1999)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the ACL SIGLEX workshop on Standardizing Lexical Resources |
| Citations: | 12 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ide99paralleltranslations,
author = {Nancy Ide},
title = {Parallel Translations as Sense Discriminators},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the ACL SIGLEX workshop on Standardizing Lexical Resources},
year = {1999},
pages = {52--61}
}
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Abstract
This article reports the results of a preliminary analysis of translation equivalents in four languages from different language families, extracted from an on-line parallel corpus of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The goal of the study is to determine the degree to which translation equivalents for different meanings of a polysemous word in English are lexicalized differently across a variety of languages, and to determine whether this information can be used to structure or create a set of sense distinctions useful in natural language processing applications. A coherence index is computed that measures the tendency for different senses of the same English word to be lexicalized differently, and from this data a clustering algorithm is used to create sense hierarchies. Introduction It is well known that the most nagging issue for word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the definition of just what a word sense is. At its base, the problem is a philosophical and linguistic one that i...
Keyphrases
parallel translation sense discriminator translation equivalent natural language processing application sense distinction polysemous word nagging issue different sens linguistic one sense hierarchy nineteen eighty-four different language family on-line parallel corpus different meaning word sense clustering algorithm word sense disambiguation english word coherence index preliminary analysis george orwell
