Using a Random Forest Classifier to Compile Bilingual Dictionaries of Technical Terms from Comparable Corpora

Georgios Kontonatsios; Yannis Korkontzelos; Jun'ichi Tsujii; Sophia Ananiadou

doi:10.3115/v1/e14-4022

Using a Random Forest Classifier to Compile Bilingual Dictionaries of Technical Terms from Comparable Corpora

Georgios Kontonatsios
, Yannis Korkontzelos
, Jun'ichi Tsujii
, Sophia Ananiadou

Computer Science

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We describe a machine learning approach, a Random Forest (RF) classifier, that is used to automatically compile bilingual dictionaries of technical terms from comparable corpora. We evaluate the RF classifier against a popular term alignment method, namely context vectors, and we report an improvement of the translation accuracy. As an application, we use the automatically extracted dictionary in combination with a trained Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) system to more accurately translate unknown terms. The dictionary extraction method described in this paper is freely available.

Original language	English
Pages	111-116
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/e14-4022
Publication status	Published - Apr 2014
Event	14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 30 Apr 2014

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Conference	14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	26/04/14 → 30/04/14

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Kontonatsios, G, Korkontzelos, Y, Tsujii, J & Ananiadou, S 2014, 'Using a Random Forest Classifier to Compile Bilingual Dictionaries of Technical Terms from Comparable Corpora', Paper presented at 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Gothenburg, Sweden, 26/04/14 - 30/04/14 pp. 111-116. https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/e14-4022

Using a Random Forest Classifier to Compile Bilingual Dictionaries of Technical Terms from Comparable Corpora. / Kontonatsios, Georgios; Korkontzelos, Yannis; Tsujii, Jun'ichi et al.
2014. 111-116 Paper presented at 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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