%0 Journal Article
%T Low Cost Construction of a Multilingual Lexicon from Bilingual Lists
%A Lim
%A Lian Tze
%A Ranaivo-Malan£¿on
%A Bali
%A Tang
%A Enya Kong
%J Polibits
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X manually constructing multilingual translation lexicons can be very costly, both in terms of time and human effort. although there have been many efforts at (semi-)automatically merging bilingual machine readable dictionaries to produce a multilingual lexicon, most of these approaches place quite specific requirements on the input bilingual resources. unfortunately, not all bilingual dictionaries fulfil these criteria, especially in the case of under-resourced language pairs. we describe a low cost method for constructing a multilingual lexicon using only simple lists of bilingual translation mappings. the method is especially suitable for under-resourced language pairs, as such bilingual resources are often freely available and easily obtainable from the internet, or digitised from simple, conventional paper-based dictionaries. the precision of random samples of the resultant multilingual lexicon is around 0.70-0.82, while coverage for each language, precision and recall can be controlled by varying threshold values. given the very simple input resources, our results are encouraging, especially in incorporating under-resourced languages into multilingual lexical resources.
%K lexical resources
%K multilingual lexicon
%K under-resourced languages.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-90442011000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en