Creating Reverse Bilingual Dictionaries
This work addresses the scarcity of bilingual dictionaries for resource-poor languages, though it is incremental as it builds on existing dictionaries and Wordnet resources.
The paper tackles the problem of creating reverse bilingual dictionaries for resource-poor languages by proposing algorithms that use existing bilingual dictionaries and English Wordnet to generate reverse entries, achieving applicability to any bilingual dictionary where one language has a Wordnet-type ontology.
Bilingual dictionaries are expensive resources and not many are available when one of the languages is resource-poor. In this paper, we propose algorithms for creation of new reverse bilingual dictionaries from existing bilingual dictionaries in which English is one of the two languages. Our algorithms exploit the similarity between word-concept pairs using the English Wordnet to produce reverse dictionary entries. Since our algorithms rely on available bilingual dictionaries, they are applicable to any bilingual dictionary as long as one of the two languages has Wordnet type lexical ontology.