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Identifying translations of compound nouns using non-aligned corpora


Author(s) : Kazuhide Yamamoto Shigeru Masuyama Kiyonori Ohtake Iram Shahzad, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1999
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : A compound noun and its translation do not always have a correspondence with each other in part-by-part basis. Therefore, there are cases where utilizing the translations of the constituent words for extracting the translation of the compound noun is ineffective. We propose a method which copes with this defect. At first, it detects the parts of the target-language corpus which are likely to contain the translation, by using the context of the compound noun. Then it extracts the translation using some heuristics. 1,