1. Rapidly Retargetable Translingual Detection
Existing Language Resources
New Ideas
Robust extraction of translation lexicons from multiple sources
Exploiting strong English resources to rapidly retarget to new languages
Interactive triage by subject matter experts without language skills.
Translingual
Retrieval
Schedule
Parallel Web mining
Printed dictionaries
Comparable Corpora
Electronic text retrieval
Document image retrieval
Impact
Translingual retrieval systems for new languages in one week
Automated tools for rapid assembly of translation lexicons
Leveraging work with text to explore document image retrieval
FY00 FY01 FY02 FY03
Maryland PI: Bonnie Dorr, Douglas Oard, Philip Resnik
Johns Hopkins PI: Bill Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, David Yarowsky