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In this paper we present an approach to bootstrap a Croatian-Slovene bilingual lexicon from comparable news corpora from scratch, without relying on any external bilingual knowledge resource. Instead of using a dictionary to translate context vectors, we build a seed lexicon from identical words in both languages and extend it with context-based cognates and translation candidates of the most frequent words. By enlarging the seed dictionary for only 7% we were able to improve the baseline precision from 0.597 to 0.731 on the mean reciprocal rank for the ten top-ranking translation candidates with a 50.4% recall on the gold standard of 500 entries.
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Ljubešić, N., Fišer, D. (2011). Bootstrapping Bilingual Lexicons from Comparable Corpora for Closely Related Languages. In: Habernal, I., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6836. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23538-2_12
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