Acquisition of Translation Lexicons for Historically Unwritten Languages via Bridging Loanwords

WS 2017 • Michael Bloodgood • Benjamin Strauss

With the advent of informal electronic communications such as social media, colloquial languages that were historically unwritten are being written for the first time in heavily code-switched environments. We present a method for inducing portions of translation lexicons through the use of expert knowledge in these settings where there are approximately zero resources available other than a language informant, potentially not even large amounts of monolingual data... (read more)

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