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Title	Data-driven Amharic-English Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition
Authors	S. Amsalu
Abstract	This paper describes a simple approach of statistical language modelling for bilingual lexicon acquisition from Amharic-English parallel corpora. The goal is to induce a seed translation lexicon from sentence-aligned corpora. The seed translation lexicon contains matches of Amharic lexemes to weekly inflected English words. Purely statistical measures of term distribution are used as the basis for finding correlations between terms. An authentic scoring scheme is codified based on distributional properties of words. For low frequency terms a two step procedure of: first a rough alignment; and then an automatic filtering to sift the output and improve the precision is made. Given the disparity of the languages and the small size of corpora used the results demonstrate the viability of the approach.
Keywords	bilingual, lexicon, disparate languages, statistical method
Full paper	Data-driven Amharic-English Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition

Title

Data-driven Amharic-English Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition

Authors

S. Amsalu

Abstract

This paper describes a simple approach of statistical language modelling for bilingual lexicon acquisition from Amharic-English parallel corpora. The goal is to induce a seed translation lexicon from sentence-aligned corpora. The seed translation lexicon contains matches of Amharic lexemes to weekly inflected English words. Purely statistical measures of term distribution are used as the basis for finding correlations between terms. An authentic scoring scheme is codified based on distributional properties of words. For low frequency terms a two step procedure of: first a rough alignment; and then an automatic filtering to sift the output and improve the precision is made. Given the disparity of the languages and the small size of corpora used the results demonstrate the viability of the approach.

Keywords

bilingual, lexicon, disparate languages, statistical method

Full paper

Data-driven Amharic-English Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition