In this article, we propose a method to extract translation equivalents with similar spelling from comparable corpora. The method was applied on Wikipedia to extract a large amount of Portuguese-Spanish bilingual terminological pairs that were not found in existing dictionaries. The resulting bilingual lexicons consists of more than 27,000 new pairs of lemmas and multiwords, with about 92% accuracy.
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In this article, we propose a method to extract translation equivalents with similar spelling from comparable corpora. The method was applied on Wikipedia to extract a large amount of Portuguese-Spanish bilingual terminological pairs that were not found in existing dictionaries. The resulting bilingual lexicons consists of more than 27,000 new pairs of lemmas and multiwords, with about 92% accuracy. - Gamallo P., Garcia M. - 10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_7
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