LEXICALL: Lexicon Construction for Foreign Language Tutoring
LEXICALL: Lexicon Construction for Foreign Language Tutoring
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1998-10-15
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Dorr, Bonnie J.
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We focus on the problem of building large repositories of lexical
conceptual structure (LCS) representations for verbs in multiple
languages. One of the main results of this work is the definition of a
relation between broad semantic classes and LCS meaning components.
Our acquisition program---LEXICALL---takes, as input, the result of
previous work on verb classification and thematic grid tagging, and
outputs LCS representations for different languages. These
representations have been ported into English, Arabic and Spanish
lexicons, each containing approximately 9000 verbs. We are currently
using these lexicons in an operational foreign language tutoring and
machine translation.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-97-09)