Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable
Corpora
Takehito Utsuro
Within the framework of translation knowledge acquisition from WWW
news sites, we study issues on the effect of cross-language retrieval
of relevant texts in bilingual lexicon acquisition from comparable
corpora. We experimentally show that, by incoporating CLIR
techniques, the number of candidate bilingual term pairs can be
drastically reduced, where most of the discarded candidate pairs are
not correct translation of each other.