Lexicon+TX: rapid construction of a multilingual lexicon with under-resourced languages |
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Authors: | Lian Tze Lim Lay-Ki Soon Tek Yong Lim Enya Kong Tang Bali Ranaivo-Malançon |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Engineering, Science and Technology, KDU College Penang, 32 Jalan Anson, 10400, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia 2. Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia 3. Linton University College, Persiaran UTL, Bandar Universiti Teknologi Legenda, Batu 12, 71700, Mantin, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia 4. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Abstract: | Most efforts at automatically creating multilingual lexicons require input lexical resources with rich content (e.g. semantic networks, domain codes, semantic categories) or large corpora. Such material is often unavailable and difficult to construct for under-resourced languages. In some cases, particularly for some ethnic languages, even unannotated corpora are still in the process of collection. We show how multilingual lexicons with under-resourced languages can be constructed using simple bilingual translation lists, which are more readily available. The prototype multilingual lexicon developed comprise six member languages: English, Malay, Chinese, French, Thai and Iban, the last of which is an under-resourced language in Borneo. Quick evaluations showed that 91.2 % of 500 random multilingual entries in the generated lexicon require minimal or no human correction. |
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