Patent ID: 7620539

Claim:
A method for identifying bilingual pairs in comparable corpora using a bilingual dictionary, the method comprising: (a) using the comparable corpora to build source context vectors and target context vectors; (b) defining: (i) a source word space with the source context vectors, and (ii) a target word space with the target context vectors; (c) using the bilingual dictionary to project: (i) the source context vectors from the source word space to a source dictionary space, and (ii) the target context vectors from the target word space to a target dictionary space; (d) using the source and target context vectors from the dictionary spaces to identify source/target context vector pairs in a bilingual space; (e) computing a similarity measure for the source/target context vector pairs identified in the bilingual space to identify a one or more bilingual pairs; and (f) adding the identified one or more bilingual pairs as entries in the bilingual dictionary; wherein the steps (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) are each performed by a processor.