We report on the prototype Slovene wordnet which currently contains about 5,000 top-level concepts. The resource is based on the Serbian wordnet which has been automatically translated with the help of a bilingual dictionary, the literals ranked according to the frequency of corpus occurrence, and results manually corrected. The paper also discusses some problems encountered along the way and p...

This paper describes our Korean-English crosslanguage information retrieval system for NTCIR-4. Our system is based on a query translation approach with a bilingual dictionary and co-occurrence information between English terms in English corpus. In this year, we have focused on translation of unknown words. We have expanded the existing bilingual dictionary by gathering some of the Korean-Engl...

A translation lexicon is a mapping between two disjoint sets of symbols. Given some corpus sample over each set of symbols, one might induce the mapping by performing statistical analyses on the corpora to find correlations between the symbols (Hwa et al., 2006). The sets stand for the source and target languages, while the symbols most often refer to words. Simplistically, a translation lexico...

This paper deals with the theoretical analysis of Devanagari script according to machine recognition perspective. An individual having good knowledge of the script of a language can easily read some words written on a paper pertaining to that script, though these are expressed in very bad manner, on the basis of his/her mental dictionary. Such words may not be easy to read through a machine as ...

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This paper addresses a problem in the current encoding bilingual dictionary models, and argues for the necessity of having a lexicogrammatical perspective in such dictionaries, by discussing a pair of equivalents in English and in Japanese. Because existing encoding dictionaries base their models on decoding dictionaries, they force users to start from a fixed lexical item. This paper demonstra...

This is a slightly longer version of an entry prepared for the 2nd edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming). Since the New Palgrave does not include acknowledgments, I should use this chance to thank Roger Backhouse, Philippe Fontaine, Daniel Kahneman, Kyu Sang Lee, Ivan Moscati, and Vernon Smith for their...

The major aim of this article is to outline the requirements for an "ideal" bilingual L1 →L2 dictionary of the general vocabulary specifically designed for the purposes of professional translation. The article challenges three commonly accepted beliefs: (a) a bilingual dictionary equals a translation dictionary; (b) a bilingual dictionary is a source of immediately insertable lexical equivalent...

We study Dictionary Learning (aka sparse coding). By geometrically interpreting an exact formulation of Dictionary Learning, we identify related problems and draw formal relationships among them. Dictionary Learning is viewed as the minimum generating set of a subspace arrangement. This formulation leads to a new family of dictionary learning algorithms. When the data are sufficiently general a...