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The PAPILLON project: cooperatively building a multilingual lexical data-base to derive open source dictionaries & lexicons

The PAPILLON project aims at creating a cooperative, free, permanent, web-oriented and personalizable environment for the development and the consultation of a multilingual lexical database. The initial motivation is the lack of dictionaries, both for humans and machines, between French and many Asian languages. In particular, although there are large F-J paper usage dictionaries, they are usable only by Japanese literates, as they never contain both original (kanji/kana) and romaji writing. This applies as well to Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, etc.

Multilingual language resources and interoperability

This article introduces the topic of “Multilingual language resources and interoperability”. We start with a taxonomy and parameters for classifying language resources. Later we provide examples and issues of interoperatability, and resource architectures to solve such issues. Finally we discuss aspects of linguistic formalisms and interoperability.

The LexALP Information System: Term Bank and Corpus for Multilingual Legal Terminology Consolidated

Standard techniques used in multilingual terminology management fail to describe legal terminologies as they are bound to different legal systems and terms do not share a common meaning. In the LexALP project, we use a technique defined for general lexical databases to achieve cross language interoperability between languages of the Alpine Convention. In this paper we present the methodology and tools developed for the collection, description and harmonisation of the legal terminology of spatial planning and sustainable development in the four languages of the countries of the Alpine Space.

A generic collaborative platform for multilingual lexical database development

The motivation of the Papillon project is to encourage the development of freely accessible Multilingual Lexical Resources by way of online collaborative work on the Internet. For this, we developed a generic community website originally dedicated to the diffusion and the development of a particular acception based multilingual lexical database. The generic aspect of our platform allows its use for the development of other lexical databases. Adapting it to a new lexical database is a matter of description of its structures and interfaces by way of XML files. In this paper, we show how we already adapted it to other very different lexical databases. We also show what future developments should be done in order to gather several lexical databases developers in a common network.