EMNLP 2022main11 citations

RAPO: An Adaptive Ranking Paradigm for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Zhoujin Tian, Chaozhuo Li, Shuo Ren, Zhiqiang Zuo, Zengxuan Wen, Xinyue Hu, Xiao Han, Haizhen Huang

Abstract

Bilingual lexicon induction induces the word translations by aligning independently trained word embeddings in two languages. Existing approaches generally focus on minimizing the distances between words in the aligned pairs, while suffering from low discriminative capability to distinguish the relative orders between positive and negative candidates. In addition, the mapping function is globally shared by all words, whose performance might be hindered by the deviations in the distributions of different languages. In this work, we propose a novel ranking-oriented induction model RAPO to learn personalized mapping function for each word. RAPO is capable of enjoying the merits from the unique characteristics of a single word and the cross-language isomorphism simultaneously. Extensive experimental results on public datasets including both rich-resource and low-resource languages demonstrate the superiority of our proposal. Our code is publicly available in https://github.com/Jlfj345wf/RAPO.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{tian-etal-2022-rapo,
    title = "{RAPO}: An Adaptive Ranking Paradigm for Bilingual Lexicon Induction",
    author = "Tian, Zhoujin  and
      Li, Chaozhuo  and
      Ren, Shuo  and
      Zuo, Zhiqiang  and
      Wen, Zengxuan  and
      Hu, Xinyue  and
      Han, Xiao  and
      Huang, Haizhen  and
      Deng, Denvy  and
      Zhang, Qi  and
      Xie, Xing",
    editor = "Goldberg, Yoav  and
      Kozareva, Zornitsa  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.606/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.606",
    pages = "8870--8883"
}