THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Department of Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Human Language Technology Center
SEMINAR
Automatic Building of Bilingual Semantic Lexicons for Translation Selection
YU Xiaofeng
HKUST
Date : 15 September 2005 (Thursday)
Time : 15:00-18:00
Venue : Rm 2578 (HLTC Conference Room, Lifts 29-30)
Abstract
I will present a model developed in my Masters Thesis work, that uses large-scale and bilingual corpora to build bilingual semantic lexicons automatically. The model employs word alignment and word frequency statistics. It also uses HowNet and WordNet semantic resources, plus Chinese and English word similarity computation methods. I will propose some strategies and algorithms to build bilingual semantic lexicons automatically. Two semantic lexicons with rich word senses, translations and statistical information were built and evaluated.
Biography
Yu Xiaofeng is a PhD student in Computer Science at HKUST. He is a member of the Human Language Technology Center and works on natural language processing. His doctoral advisor is Prof. Dekai Wu. From 2003 to 2005, he was at the Machine Intelligence & Translation Laboratory (MI&TLAB) of the CS Department at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), from which he received his Masters in Computer Science.
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Last updated: 2005.09.15 Dekai Wu