Creating Lexical Resources for Endangered Languages
This addresses the challenge of resource scarcity for endangered languages, though it is incremental as it builds on existing tools like Wordnets and MT.
The paper tackles the problem of generating lexical resources for endangered languages by developing algorithms that construct bilingual dictionaries and multilingual thesauruses using public Wordnets and a machine translator, requiring only one bilingual dictionary between the endangered language and an intermediate helper language.
This paper examines approaches to generate lexical resources for endangered languages. Our algorithms construct bilingual dictionaries and multilingual thesauruses using public Wordnets and a machine translator (MT). Since our work relies on only one bilingual dictionary between an endangered language and an "intermediate helper" language, it is applicable to languages that lack many existing resources.