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In this paper, we introduce the methodology for the construction of dictionary fragments under development in DELIS. The approach advocated is corpus-based, computationally supported, and aimed at the construction of parallel monolingual dictionary fragments which can be linked to form translation dictionaries without many problems.
The parallelism of the monolingual fragments is achieved through the use of a shared inventory of descriptive devices, one common representation formalism (typed feature structures) for linguistic information from all levels, as well as a working methodology inspired by onomasiology: treating all elements of a given lexical semantic field consistently with common descriptive devices at the same time.
It is claimed that such monolingual dictionaries are particularly easy to relate in a machine translation application. The principles of such a combination of dictionary fragments are illustrated with examples from an experimental HPSG-based interlingua-oriented machine translation prototype.
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Heid, U. (1995). Relating parallel monolingual lexicon fragments for translation purposes. In: Steffens, P. (eds) Machine Translation and the Lexicon. WMTL 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 898. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59040-4_32
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