Learning translations via matrix completion

Derry Wijaya, Brendan Callahan, John Hewitt, Jie Gao, Xiao Ling, Marianna Apidianaki, Chris Callison-Burch

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Abstract

Bilingual Lexicon Induction is the task of learning word translations without bilingual parallel corpora. We model this task as a matrix completion problem, and present an effective and extendable framework for completing the matrix. This method harnesses diverse bilingual and monolingual signals, each of which may be incomplete or noisy. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance for both high and low resource languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2017 - The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsRebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Place of PublicationStroudsburg PA USA
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1452-1463
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626838
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventEmpirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2017 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 9 Sept 201711 Sept 2017
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D17/

Conference

ConferenceEmpirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2017
Abbreviated titleEMNLP 2017
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period9/09/1711/09/17
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