Bilingual Lexicon Induction

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• Semi-Supervised Learning for Bilingual Lexicon Induction
  10 Feb 2024 2 repositories listed
  It was recently shown that it is possible to infer such lexicon, without using any parallel data, by aligning word embeddings trained on monolingual data.
• Cross-lingual Alignment vs Joint Training: A Comparative Study and A Simple Unified Framework
  10 Oct 2019 2 repositories listed
  Learning multilingual representations of text has proven a successful method for many cross-lingual transfer learning tasks.
• Learning Multilingual Word Embeddings in Latent Metric Space: A Geometric Approach
  27 Aug 2018 2 repositories listed
  Our approach decouples learning the transformation from the source language to the target language into (a) learning rotations for language-specific embeddings to align them to a common space, and (b) learning a…
• Self-Augmented In-Context Learning for Unsupervised Word Translation
  15 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 7 of 10 samples · 3 unverified
  Recent work has shown that, while large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong word translation or bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) capabilities in few-shot setups, they still cannot match the performance of…
• ProMap: Effective Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Language Model Prompting
  28 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  We also demonstrate the effectiveness of ProMap in re-ranking results from other BLI methods such as with aligned static word embeddings.
• On Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Large Language Models
  21 Oct 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified
  Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) is a core task in multilingual NLP that still, to a large extent, relies on calculating cross-lingual word representations.
• When your Cousin has the Right Connections: Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction for Related Data-Imbalanced Languages
  23 May 2023 1 repository listed
  Most existing approaches for unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) depend on good quality static or contextual embeddings requiring large monolingual corpora for both languages.
• Low-resource Bilingual Dialect Lexicon Induction with Large Language Models
  19 Apr 2023 1 repository listed
  Bilingual word lexicons are crucial tools for multilingual natural language understanding and machine translation tasks, as they facilitate the mapping of words in one language to their synonyms in another language.
• Improving Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Cross-Encoder Reranking
  30 Oct 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified
  This crucial step is done via 1) creating a word similarity dataset, comprising positive word pairs (i.
• RAPO: An Adaptive Ranking Paradigm for Bilingual Lexicon Induction
  18 Oct 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 6 samples · 0 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  Bilingual lexicon induction induces the word translations by aligning independently trained word embeddings in two languages.
• IsoVec: Controlling the Relative Isomorphism of Word Embedding Spaces
  11 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  The ability to extract high-quality translation dictionaries from monolingual word embedding spaces depends critically on the geometric similarity of the spaces -- their degree of "isomorphism."
• Improving Word Translation via Two-Stage Contrastive Learning
  15 Mar 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  At Stage C1, we propose to refine standard cross-lingual linear maps between static word embeddings (WEs) via a contrastive learning objective; we also show how to integrate it into the self-learning procedure for even…
• Improving Word Translation via Two-Stage Contrastive Learning
  16 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  As Stage C1, we propose to refine standard cross-lingual linear maps between static word embeddings (WEs) via a contrastive learning objective; we also show how to integrate it into the self-learning procedure for even…
• Prix-LM: Pretraining for Multilingual Knowledge Base Construction
  16 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  To achieve this, it is crucial to represent multilingual knowledge in a shared/unified space.
• An Analysis of Euclidean vs. Graph-Based Framing for Bilingual Lexicon Induction from Word Embedding Spaces
  26 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  Alternatively, word embeddings may be understood as nodes in a weighted graph.
• An Alignment-Based Approach to Semi-Supervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Small Parallel Corpora
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Aimed at generating a seed lexicon for use in downstream natural language tasks and unsupervised methods for bilingual lexicon induction have received much attention in the academic literature recently.
• Combining Static Word Embeddings and Contextual Representations for Bilingual Lexicon Induction
  6 Jun 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 7 of 18 samples · 11 unverified · 18 pointer-only (licence)
  Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) aims to map words in one language to their translations in another, and is typically through learning linear projections to align monolingual word representation spaces.
• Evaluating Word Embeddings with Categorical Modularity
  2 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  We find moderate to strong positive correlations between categorical modularity and performance on the monolingual tasks of sentiment analysis and word similarity calculation and on the cross-lingual task of bilingual…
• Cross-Lingual Word Embedding Refinement by ℓ₁ Norm Optimisation
  1 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  It is therefore recommended that this strategy be adopted as a standard for CLWE methods.
• Cross-Lingual Word Embedding Refinement by ℓ₁ Norm Optimisation
  11 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  It is therefore recommended that this strategy be adopted as a standard for CLWE methods.
• Improving the Lexical Ability of Pretrained Language Models for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation
  18 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  Successful methods for unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) employ crosslingual pretraining via self-supervision, often in the form of a masked language modeling or a sequence generation task, which requires…
• Learning Contextualised Cross-lingual Word Embeddings and Alignments for Extremely Low-Resource Languages Using Parallel Corpora
  27 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  We propose a new approach for learning contextualised cross-lingual word embeddings based on a small parallel corpus (e.
• Semi-Supervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Two-way Interaction
  14 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a new semi-supervised BLI framework to encourage the interaction between the supervised signal and unsupervised alignment.
• Refinement of Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings
  21 Feb 2020 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a self-supervised method to refine the alignment of unsupervised bilingual word embeddings.
• Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Embeddings?
  4 Sep 2019 1 repository listed
  A series of bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) experiments with 15 diverse languages (210 language pairs) show that fully unsupervised CLWE methods still fail for a large number of language pairs (e.
• Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Semi-supervision in Non-Isometric Embedding Spaces
  19 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  We then propose Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Semi-Supervision (BLISS) --- a semi-supervised approach that relaxes the isometric assumption while leveraging both limited aligned bilingual lexicons and a larger set of…
• Bilingual Lexicon Induction through Unsupervised Machine Translation
  24 Jul 2019 1 repository listed
  A recent research line has obtained strong results on bilingual lexicon induction by aligning independently trained word embeddings in two languages and using the resulting cross-lingual embeddings to induce word…
• Hubless Nearest Neighbor Search for Bilingual Lexicon Induction
  1 Jul 2019 1 repository listed
  Recent advances in BLI work by aligning the two word embedding spaces.
• Density Matching for Bilingual Word Embedding
  4 Apr 2019 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 9 samples · 9 unverified
  Recent approaches to cross-lingual word embedding have generally been based on linear transformations between the sets of embedding vectors in the two languages.
• How to (Properly) Evaluate Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings: On Strong Baselines, Comparative Analyses, and Some Misconceptions
  1 Feb 2019 1 repository listed
  In this work, we make the first step towards a comprehensive evaluation of cross-lingual word embeddings.

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