# Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction Across Writing Systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00037 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.00037/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 31 Jan 2020.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent embedding-based methods in unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction have shown good results, but generally have not leveraged orthographic (spelling) information, which can be helpful for pairs of related languages. This work augments a state-of-the-art method with orthographic features, and extends prior work in this space by proposing methods that can learn and utilize orthographic correspondences even between languages with different scripts. We demonstrate this by experimenting on three language pairs with different scripts and varying degrees of lexical similarity.