Recently, internationalization and the spread of the Internet are increasing our chances of participating in intercultural and multilingual collaborations. This trend increases the number of multilingual groups where the native languages of the members differ and increases the demand for machine translation (MT) between non-English languages. However, because of the limited availability of such...

When consulting a dictionary, people can find the meaning of a word via the definition, which usually contains the relevant information to fulfil their requirement. Lexicographers produce dictionaries and their work consists in presenting information essential for grasping the meaning of words. However, when people need to find a word it is likely that they do not obtain the information they ar...

The article briefly highlights the life path and scientific heritage of Vlas Platonovich Zhukov (1921– 1991), Doctor Philology, Professor, Honoured Scientist RSFSR, one leading phraseologists in Russia. constructive pillars scholar’s concept consisted two oppositions: 1) a phraseological unit word 2) component unit. In line with this direction using method application, whole complex fundamental...

External linguistic resources have been used for a very long time in information extraction. These methods enrich a document with data that are semantically equivalent, in order to improve recall. For instance, some of these methods use synonym dictionaries. These dictionaries enrich a sentence with words that have a similar meaning. However, these methods present some serious drawbacks, since ...

One of the most critical problems of automatic natural language processing (NLP) is the size of the medical lexicons. The set of compound medical words and the continual creation of new terms renders medical lexicons exhaustive beyond question. The structure of such dictionaries usually consists of two parts: 1) the morphological and sometimes syntactical information necessary to identify, on a...

The Lack of written representation for Italian Sign Language (LIS) makes it difficult to do perform tasks like looking up a new word in a dictionary. Most of the paper dictionaries show LIS signs in drawings or pictures. It’s not a simple proposition to understand the meaning of sign from paper dictionaries unless one already knows the meanings. This paper presents the LIS dictionary which prov...