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The Ecology of Lexical Acquisition: Computational
Lexicon Making Process
Evelyne Viegas and Sergei Nirenburg
viegas@crl.nmsu.edu/sergei@crl.nmsu.edu
Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
In Proceedings of Euralex96, Göteberg, 1996
Abstract:
In this paper, we present the process of dictionary making,
as we defined it to build Spanlex, a Spanish
lexicon, for Mikrokosmos, a machine translation
(MT) system based on semantics.
Our aim in this one-year project has been to acquire a lexicon of
about 40,000 word meanings. We adopted a computational semantics
approach where the semantics has to be entered semi-automatically by
the acquirers. This approach pointed toward automating the task of
acquisition as much as possible. Therefore, we
had to develop and implement tools to help and guide acquisition.
We present here in a diagram, representing the process of acquisition,
some of the resources needed.
Finally, we focus on the way to acquire a large-scale high
quality lexicon by using derivational morpho-semantic rules.
Evelyne Viegas
Tue Oct 1 16:26:07 MDT 1996