A topic model outputs a set of multinomial distributions over words for each topic. In this paper, we investigate the value of bilingual topic models, i.e., a bilingual Latent Dirichlet Allocation model for finding translations of terms in comparable corpora without using any linguistic resources. Experiments on a document-aligned English-Italian Wikipedia corpus confirm that the developed methods which only use knowledge from word-topic distributions outperform methods based on similarity measures in the original word-document space. The best results, obtained by combining knowledge from word-topic distributions with similarity measures in the original space, are also reported.
['Ivan Vulić', 'Wim De Smet', 'Marie-Francine Moens']
Identifying Word Translations from Comparable Corpora Using Latent Topic Models