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Automatic Dictionary Creation by Sub-symbolic Encoding of Words

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This paper describes a technique for automatic creation of dictionaries using sub-symbolic representation of words in cross-language context. Semantic relationship among words of two languages is extracted from aligned bilingual text corpora. This feature is obtained applying the Latent Semantic Analysis technique to the matrices representing terms co-occurrences in aligned text fragments. The technique allows to find the “best translation” according to a properly defined geometric distance in an automatically created semantic space. Experiments show an interesting correctness of 95% obtained in the best case.

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  1. DINFO – Dipartimento di ingegneria INFOrmatica, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Filippo Vella, Ignazio Motisi & Salvatore Gaglio

  2. ICAR – Istituto di CAlcolo e Reti ad alte prestazioni, Italian National Research Council, Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Giovanni Pilato & Salvatore Gaglio

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  1. Dipartimentimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, via Comelico 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Bruno Apolloni

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081, Baronissi (SA), Italy

    Maria Marinaro

  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy

    Giuseppe Nicosia

  4. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy

    Roberto Tagliaferri

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Vella, F., Pilato, G., Motisi, I., Gaglio, S. (2006). Automatic Dictionary Creation by Sub-symbolic Encoding of Words. In: Apolloni, B., Marinaro, M., Nicosia, G., Tagliaferri, R. (eds) Neural Nets. WIRN NAIS 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11731177_17

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