Discovering Light Verb Constructions and their Translations from Parallel Corpora without Word Alignment

Natalie Vargas (1) , Carlos Ramisch (2) , Helena Caseli (1)

1 Department of Computer Science [Sao Carlos]
2 TALEP - Traitement Automatique du Langage Ecrit et Parlé

We propose a method for joint unsu-pervised discovery of multiword expressions (MWEs) and their translations from parallel corpora. First, we apply independent monolingual MWE extraction in source and target languages simultaneously. Then, we calculate translation probability , association score and distributional similarity of co-occurring pairs. Finally, we rank all translations of a given MWE using a linear combination of these features. Preliminary experiments on light verb constructions show promising results.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Computation and Language [cs.CL]

Natalie Vargas, Carlos Ramisch, Helena Caseli. Discovering Light Verb Constructions and their Translations from Parallel Corpora without Word Alignment. Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), 2017, Valencia, Spain. pp.91 - 96. ⟨hal-01795904⟩