Evaluating a Pivot-Based Approach for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction

Table 2

The partial output of Anymalign for Korean as a source language and English as a pivot language.

Number	Source word,	Pivot word,			Remarks
()	kyeong-chal (police)^a	police	0.890421	0.877882	Good
()	kyeong-chal (police)	scenario	1.000000	0.000167	Bad
()	jeong-bu (government)	balance	0.000004	0.000506	Bad

^aIn the second column, Korean words are romanized and are composed of syllables, which are separated by hyphens (-). Words in the parenthesis are their meanings. For example, the meaning of Korean word kyeong-chal is police.