A Dictionary Reading System using Relationships between Words

EFL Translation Students' Perspective toward Using Bilingual Dictionary in Translation of Polysemous Words

This research presented the use of bilingual dictionary and addressed the EFL translation students' points of view on the use of bilingual dictionary in translating polysemous words (English to Persian). Moreo- ver, it aimed at finding the possible relationship between the effect of using bilingual dictionary by stu- dents in translating polysemous words and their achieved scores. In the study ...

Dictionary of Abstract and Concrete Words of the Russian Language: A Methodology for Creation and Application

The paper describes the first stage of a project on creating an electronic dictionary with numerical estimates of the degree of abstractness and concreteness of Russian words. Our approach is to integrate data obtained from several different sources: text corpora, psycholinguistic experiments, published dictionaries, markers of abstractness (certain suffixes) and a translation of a similar dict...

Usage-based Structuralization of Relationships between Words

The development of structure of relationships between words is studied with a constructive approach by means of arti cial agents with grammar systems. The agents try to recognize given sentences in terms of their own grammar. A word's relationship to other words, which represents meanings of the word, is derived by analyzing the word's usage in sentences, and which is calculated via the mutual ...

persian words in the oldest arabic dictionary

ketab-ol-ein, which was written by ahmad farahidi, is one of the oldest dictionaries that exist today. in the preliminary discussion we mentioned that, although historical sources show that the work of ibn abbas looks like a dictionary, it is becoming accepted that ketab-ol-ein is the first dictionary. the article starts with explanations about the life and work of khalilibn ahmad. we have also...

A dictionary of words about alcohol.