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International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

PROPOR 2012: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language pp 63–72Cite as

Extraction of Bilingual Cognates from Wikipedia

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In this article, we propose a method to extract translation equivalents with similar spelling from comparable corpora. The method was applied on Wikipedia to extract a large amount of Portuguese-Spanish bilingual terminological pairs that were not found in existing dictionaries. The resulting bilingual lexicons consists of more than 27,000 new pairs of lemmas and multiwords, with about 92% accuracy.

This work has been supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, within the project OntoPedia, ref: FFI2010-14986.

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  1. Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias da Informação (CITIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain

    Pablo Gamallo & Marcos Garcia

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  1. UFSCAR, Rod. Washington Luís, 13565-905, São Carlos, Brazil

    Helena Caseli

  2. UFRGS, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Aline Villavicencio

  3. DETI/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    António Teixeira

  4. UC/ IT, DEEC, Universidade de Coimbra, Polo 2, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Fernando Perdigão

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Gamallo, P., Garcia, M. (2012). Extraction of Bilingual Cognates from Wikipedia. In: Caseli, H., Villavicencio, A., Teixeira, A., Perdigão, F. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_7

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