An Analysis towards the Development of Electronic Bilingual Dictionary (Manipuri-English) -A Report

Meaningful sentences are composed of meaningful words; any system that hopes to process natural languages as people do must have information about words, their meaning and relative words in another language. This information is traditionally provided through electronic dictionaries. But these dictionary entries evolved for the convenience of human readers, not for machines. So, machine readable electronic dictionary becomes the central resources for Natural Language applications. Dictionaries and other lexical resources are not yet widely available in electronic form for Manipuri language. And there is no machine readable dictionary that can provide both of lexical resources and conceptual information. This paper describes the ongoing development of an Electronic Manipuri Bilingual dictionary. This implementation will provide a more effective combination of traditional English-Manipuri bi-lingual lexicographic information and their conceptual information