Kaoru Yamamoto
ABSTRACT
This paper describes a method to find phrase-level translation patterns from parallel corpora by applying dependency structure analysis. We use statistical dependency parsers to determine dependency relations between base phrases in a sentence. Our method is tested with a business expression corpus containing 10000 English-Japanese sentence pairs and achieved approximately 90% accuracy in extracting bilingual correspondences. The result shows that the use of dependency relation helps to acquire interesting translation patterns.
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