Induction of Bilingual Dictionaries

The aim of the Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) task is to produce a bilingual lexicon using a pair of comparable corpora and either a small set of seed translations (a supervised setting) or no seeds at all (an unsupervised setting). A traditional bilingual dictionary usually offers a structure of senses and conditions for their translations, as well as POS tags for disambiguation. In contrast to this task, building bilingual lexicons as the aim for the BLI task involves a number of simplifications.