Using multiple pivots to align Korean and Japanese lexical resources

• Main Authors: Paik, Kyonghee., Bond, Francis., Shirai, Satoshi.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Korean; DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Japanese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83670; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7279
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We propose a simple method to make a dictionary using interme- diate means, taking advantage of accessible resources such as English- to-X dictionaries and X-to-English dictionaries. Also, we focus on how we can improve the existing method to generate Korean-to-Japanese dictionary automatically. Since Korean and Japanese share Chinese characters for the majority of words, we use them as well. We argue that this \multi-pivot criterion" is useful to build dictionaries especially for the languages using Chinese characters such as Vietnamese and so on.