Translation selection through source word sense disambiguation and target word selection

A word has many senses, and each sense can be mapped into many target words. Therefore, to select the appropriate translation with a cor-rect sense, the sense of a source word should be disambiguated before selecting a target word. Based on this observation, we propose a hybrid method for translation selection that combines disambiguation of a source word sense and se-lection of a target word. Knowledge for transla-tion selection is extracted from a bilingual dic-tionary and target language corpora. Dividing translation selection into the two sub-problems, we can make knowledge acquisition straightfor-ward and select more appropriate target words.