Extracting Synonyms from Bilingual Dictionaries

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00600v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:09:22 GMT
• Title: Extracting Synonyms from Bilingual Dictionaries
• Authors: Mustafa Jarrar, Eman Karajah, Muhammad Khalifa, Khaled Shaalan
• Abstract summary: We present our progress in developing a novel algorithm to extract synonyms from bilingual dictionaries. The idea is to construct a translation graph from translation pairs, then to extract and consolidate cyclic paths to form bilingual sets of synonyms. The initial evaluation of this algorithm illustrates promising results in extracting Arabic-English bilingual synonyms.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We present our progress in developing a novel algorithm to extract synonyms from bilingual dictionaries. Identification and usage of synonyms play a significant role in improving the performance of information access applications. The idea is to construct a translation graph from translation pairs, then to extract and consolidate cyclic paths to form bilingual sets of synonyms. The initial evaluation of this algorithm illustrates promising results in extracting Arabic-English bilingual synonyms. In the evaluation, we first converted the synsets in the Arabic WordNet into translation pairs (i.e., losing word-sense memberships). Next, we applied our algorithm to rebuild these synsets. We compared the original and extracted synsets obtaining an F-Measure of 82.3% and 82.1% for Arabic and English synsets extraction, respectively.

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