Using English as Pivot to Extract Persian-Italian Parallel Sentences from Non-Parallel Corpora

no code implementations • 29 Jan 2017 • Ebrahim Ansari, M. H. Sadreddini, Mostafa Sheikhalishahi, Richard Wallace, Fatemeh Alimardani

Experimental results show that using the new pivot based extraction can increase the quality of bilingual corpus significantly and consequently improves the performance of the Persian-Italian SMT system.

Machine Translation Sentence +2

Extracting Bilingual Persian Italian Lexicon from Comparable Corpora Using Different Types of Seed Dictionaries

no code implementations • 29 Jan 2017 • Ebrahim Ansari, M. H. Sadreddini, Lucio Grandinetti, Mahsa Radinmehr, Ziba Khosravan, Mehdi Sheikhalishahi

In order to combine seed dictionaries, we propose two different combination models and examine the effect of our novel combination models on various comparable corpora that have differing degrees of comparability.