A Swedish Core Vocabulary for Machine Translation

The reasons for establishing a new Swedish core vocabulary are presented, and the steps taken in its establishment are described. Some conclusions are drawn as for the usefulness o f frequency lists in this respect The impact on the frequency lists o f the nature of the corpus is illustrated. The necessity o f introducing phrases in the core vocabulary is pointed o u t The information to be associated with the entries to m eet the requirements of the translation process is looked upon in the light o f the definitions in a monolingual dictionary.