A Comparison of Word Embeddings for English and Cross-Lingual Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation
Table 6: Results of our systems on the Cross-Lingual WSD dataset, excluding named entities. Instances with out-of-vocabulary annotations are removed. All annotations are considered correct answers.
['[BOLD] Method', '[BOLD] Accuracy']
This could be because Bing Translator performs translation at the phrase level. Therefore, many of the target words are not translated individually and are translated only as part of a larger unit, making it less suitable for the use case in WordNews where only the translation of single words matter. For example, when translating the word “little” in “These are serious issues and themes, and sometimes little kids aren’t ready to process and understand these ideas”, Bing Translator provides a translation of “这些都是严重的问题和主题，有时小孩 不准备处理和理解这些想法” but does not give an alignment for the word ‘little’ but instead provides an alignment for the entire multi-word unit “little kids”. As such, the translation would not match any of the annotations provided by our annotators. This is an appropriate treatment since a user of an educational app requesting specifically a translation for the single word “little” should not see the translation of the phrase.