Acquisition of Translation Lexicons for Historically Unwritten Languages via Bridging Loanwords
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natural language processingType de record:
paperdataset
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BloStr
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With the advent of informal electronic communications such as social media, colloquial languages that were historically unwritten are being written for the first time in heavily code-switched environments. We present a method for inducing portions of translation lexicons through the use of expert knowledge in these settings where there are approximately zero resources available other than a language informant, potentially not even large amounts of monolingual data. We investigate inducing a Moroccan Darija-English translation lexicon via French loanwords bridging into English and find that a useful lexicon is induced for human-assisted translation and statistical machine translation. 5 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; published in the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, pages 21-25, Vancouver, Canada, August 2017
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