Using multiple pivots to align Korean and Japanese lexical resources.

Abstract

We propose a simple method to

make a dictionary using interme-

diate means, taking advantage of

accessible resources such as English-

to-X dictionaries and X-to-English

dictionaries. Also, we focus on how

we can improve the existing method

to generate Korean-to-Japanese

dictionary automatically. Since

Korean and Japanese share Chinese

characters for the majority of words,

we use them as well. We argue that

this \multi-pivot criterion" is useful

to build dictionaries especially

for the languages using Chinese

characters such as Vietnamese and

so on.