Parallel Text

We describe an approach for generating a ranked list of candidate document transla- tion pairs without the use of bilingual dic- tionary or machine translation system. We developed this approach …...

The Web is an ever increasing, dynamically changing, multilingual repository of text. There have been several approaches to harvest this repository for bootstrapping, supplementing and adapting data needed for training …...

Parallel text is the fuel that drives modern machine translation systems. The Web is a comprehensive source of preexisting par- allel text, but crawling the entire web is impossible for …...

. Bilingual lexicons play a vital role in cross-language information retrieval and machine translation. The manual construction of these lexicons is often costly and time consuming. Word alignment techniques are …...

AbstractThis paper will focus on the evaluation of automatic methods for quantifying language similarity. This is achieved by ascribing language similarity to the similarity of text corpora. This corpus similarity …...

AbstractCurrent methods for word alignment require considerable amounts of parallel text to deliver accurate results, a requirement which is met only for a small minority of the world’s approximately 7,000 …...

Most work on extracting parallel text from comparable corpora depends on linguistic re- sources such as seed parallel documents or translation dictionaries. This paper presents a simple baseline approach for …...

AbstractWe develop and investigate several cross-lingual alignment approaches for neural sentence embedding models, such as the supervised inference classifier, InferSent, and sequential encoder-decoder models. We evaluate three alignment frameworks applied …...

AbstractMultilingual pretrained models, while effective on monolingual data, need additional training to work well with code-switched text. In this work, we present a novel idea of training multilingual models with …...

AbstractThe performance of multilingual pretrained models is highly dependent on the availability of monolingual or parallel text present in a target language. Thus, the majority of the world’s languages cannot …...