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Multilingual language resources and interoperability

Profile image of Gilles SérassetGilles Sérasset

2009

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Abstract 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.

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Figure 1. A simple classification of linguistic resources dictionaries, but also collections of texts from different languages and alignment and annotation transfer tools. Obviously, contrastive links in dictionaries tend to be more explicitly classified than, for example, links in sentence or word alignment. The least precise contrastive link is found in non-parallel multilingual collections, such as, for example, comparable corpora.
Figure 1. A simple classification of linguistic resources dictionaries, but also collections of texts from different languages and alignment and annotation transfer tools. Obviously, contrastive links in dictionaries tend to be more explicitly classified than, for example, links in sentence or word alignment. The least precise contrastive link is found in non-parallel multilingual collections, such as, for example, comparable corpora.

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