An automatic method of creating valency entries using plain bilingual dictionaries

• Main Authors: Bond, Francis, Fujita, Sanae.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92264; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6816
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we introduce a fully automatic method to extend an existing rich bilingual valency dictionary by using information from multiple plain bilingual dictionaries. We evaluate our method using a translation regression test, and get an improvement of 7%.