We have proposed a new method to determine semantic distance in a possibly resource-poor language by combining its text with a knowledge source in a different, preferably resource-rich, language.
we combined German text with an English thesaurus to create cross-lingual distributional profiles of concepts-the strengths of association between English thesaurus senses (concepts) of German words and co-occurring German words-using a German-English bilingual lexicon and a bootstrapping algorithm designed to overcome ambiguities of word-senses and translations.