Exploiting Similarities among Languages for Machine Translation

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Dictionaries and phrase tables are the basis of modern statistical machine translation systems.

• This paper develops a method that can automate the process of generating and extending dictionaries and phrase tables.
• Our method can translate missing word and phrase entries by learning language structures based on large monolingual data and mapping between languages from small bilingual data.
• It uses distributed representation of words and learns a linear mapping between vector spaces of languages.