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  <Title>Word Sense Acquisition from Bilingual Comparable Corpora</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Manually constructing an inventory of word senses has suffered from problems including high cost, arbitrary assignment of meaning to words, and mismatch to domains. To overcome these problems, we propose a method to assign word meaning from a bilingual comparable corpus and a bilingual dictionary.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It clusters second-language translation equivalents of a first-language target word on the basis of their translingually aligned distribution patterns. Thus it produces a hierarchy of corpus-relevant meanings of the target word, each of which is defined with a set of translation equivalents. The effectiveness of the method has been demonstrated through an experiment using a comparable corpus consisting of Wall Street Journal and Nihon Keizai Shimbun corpora together with the EDR bilingual dictionary.</Paragraph>
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