  The LEAFTOP (language extracted automatically from thousands of passages)
dataset consists of nouns that appear in multiple places in the four gospels of
the New Testament. We use a naive approach -- probabilistic inference -- to
identify likely translations in 1480 other languages. We evaluate this process
and find that it provides lexiconaries with accuracy from 42% (Korafe) to 99%
(Runyankole), averaging 72% correct across evaluated languages. The process
translates up to 161 distinct lemmas from Koine Greek (average 159). We
identify nouns which appear to be easy and hard to translate, language families
where this technique works, and future possible improvements and extensions.
The claims to novelty are: the use of a Koine Greek New Testament as the source
language; using a fully-annotated manually-created grammatically parse of the
source text; a custom scraper for texts in the target languages; a new metric
for language similarity; a novel strategy for evaluation on low-resource
languages.
