Translation lexicon acquisition from bilingual dictionaries

David Scott Doermann; Huanfeng Ma; Burcu Karagol-Ayan; Douglas William Oard

doi:10.1117/12.450737

18 December 2001 Translation lexicon acquisition from bilingual dictionaries

David Scott Doermann, Huanfeng Ma, Burcu Karagol-Ayan, Douglas William Oard

Proceedings Volume 4670, Document Recognition and Retrieval IX; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.450737
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Bilingual dictionaries hold great potential as a source of lexical resources for training automated systems for optical character recognition, machine translation and cross-language information retrieval. In this work we describe a system for extracting term lexicons from printed copies of bilingual dictionaries. We describe our approach to page and definition segmentation and entry parsing. We have used the approach to parse a number of dictionaries and demonstrate the results for retrieval using a French-English Dictionary to generate a translation lexicon and a corpus of English queries applied to French documents to evaluation cross-language IR.

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David Scott Doermann, Huanfeng Ma, Burcu Karagol-Ayan, and Douglas William Oard "Translation lexicon acquisition from bilingual dictionaries", Proc. SPIE 4670, Document Recognition and Retrieval IX, (18 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.450737

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