Evaluating a Pivot-Based Approach for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction

Table 1

Comparisons between the standard approach and the PBSA.

Category	Standard	Pivot-based
Corpora for estimating models	Two comparable	Two parallel
Representation of source context vectors	Source words	Pivot words
Representation of target context vectors	Target words	Pivot words
Context vector translation	Required	Not required
Seed dictionary	Required	Not required
Domain adaptation	Relatively easy	Not easy