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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