Semi-supervised learning of partial cognates using bilingual bootstrapping

Authors:
Oana Frunza;Diana Inkpen
Affiliations:
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Venue:
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages that have the same meaning in some, but not all contexts. Detecting the actual meaning of a partial cognate in context can be useful for Machine Translation tools and for Computer-Assisted Language Learning tools. In this paper we propose a supervised and a semi-supervised method to disambiguate partial cognates between two languages: French and English. The methods use only automatically-labeled data; therefore they can be applied for other pairs of languages as well. We also show that our methods perform well when using corpora from different domains.