Towards a Methodology for the Construction of Multilingual Resources for Multilingual Generation

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

Extraction of linguistic resources from multilingual corpora and their exploitation

Increasing availability of on-line and off-line multilingual resources along with the developments in the related automatic tools that can process this information, such as GIZA++ (Och & Ney 2003), has made it possible to build new multilingual resources that can be used for NLP/IR tasks. Lexicon generation is one such task, which if done by hand is quite expensive with human and capital costs ...

Multilingual Natural Language Generation for Multilingual Software: A Functional Linguistic Approach

In this paper we present an implemented account of multilingual linguistic resources for multilingual text generation that improves significantly on the degree of re-use of resources both across languages and across applications. We argue that this is a necessary step for multilingual generation in order to reduce the high cost of constructing linguistic resources and to make NLG relevant for a...

Methodology and construction of the Basque WordNet

Semantic interpretation of language requires extensive and rich lexical knowledge bases (LKB). The Basque WordNet is a LKB based on WordNet and its multilingual counterparts EuroWordNet and the Multilingual Central Repository. This paper reviews the theoretical and practical aspects of the Basque WordNet lexical knowledge base, as well as the steps and methodology followed in its construction. ...