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This paper gives a method of expanding bilingual dictionaries by creating a new multi-word entry (MWE) and its possible translation previously unregistered in bilingual dictionaries by replacing one of the components of a registered MWE with its semantically similar words, and then selecting appropriate lexical entries from the pairs of new MWEs and their possible translations according to a prioritizing method. In the proposed method, the pairs of new nominal MWEs and their possible translations are prioritized by referring to more than one thesaurus and considering the number of original MWEs from which a single new MWE is created. As a result, the pairs which are effective for improving translation quality, if registered in bilingual dictionaries, are acquired with an improvement of 55.0% for the top 500 prioritized pairs. This accuracy rate exceeds the one marked with the baseline method.
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Kutsumi, T., Yoshimi, T., Kotani, K., Sata, I., Isahara, H. (2006). Expansion of Machine Translation Bilingual Dictionaries by Using Existing Dictionaries and Thesauruses. In: Matsumoto, Y., Sproat, R.W., Wong, KF., Zhang, M. (eds) Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead. ICCPOL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11940098_35
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