A reusable lexical database tool for machine translation

Brigitte Bläser, Ulrike Schwall, Angelika Storrer
1992 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics -   unpublished
This paper describes the lexical database tool LOLA (Linguistic-Oriented Lexical database Approach) which has been developed fur the construction and maintenance of lexicons for the maclfine translation system I,MT. First, the requirements such a tool should meet are discussed, then I,MT and the lexical information it requires, and some issues concerning vocabulary acquisition are presented. Afterwards the architecture aml the components of the I,OLA system are described and it is shown how we
more » ... ried to meet the requirements worked out em'hier. Although I,OI,A originally has been designed and implemented for the German-English I,MT prototype, it aimed from the beginning at a representation of lexical data that can be reused for uther LMT or MT prototypes or even other NLP applications. A special point of discussion will therefore be the adaptability of the tool and its cumponents as well as the reusability of the lexical data stored in the database for the lexicon development for I,MT or for other applications.
doi:10.3115/992133.992150 fatcat:mrbrptjfobh5rlbuspsxjupnni