Developing and Evaluating a Searchable Swedish-Thai Lexicon

We present an automatically created Swedish-Thai lexicon. The lexicon was created by matching the English translations in a Thai-English and a Swedish-English lexicon. The search interface to the lexicon includes several NLP tools to help the target group: second language learners of Swedish. These include automatic generation of inflectional forms of words, automatic spelling correction, lemmatization and compound analysis of queries. A user study was performed and showed that while erroneous translations sometimes fool the users, they still find the lexicon good enough to be useful. They also like the NLP tools, though some grammatical information is presented in a hard to understand way. The lexicon and the interface tools were built using commonly available NLP tools.