Bilingual Dictionary Induction for Bantu Languages
This addresses the challenge of low-resource language translation for Bantu language speakers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing methods for dictionary induction.
The authors tackled the problem of learning bilingual translation dictionaries between English and Bantu languages by exploiting their common grammatical structure, achieving dictionary induction for languages without training data.
We present a method for learning bilingual translation dictionaries between English and Bantu languages. We show that exploiting the grammatical structure common to Bantu languages enables bilingual dictionary induction for languages where training data is unavailable.