A bilingual dictionary is a valuable linguistic resource which records, among other things, the di erences in the segmentation of semantic space by the two languages and hence the di culty in producing faithful translations between the two languages. Statistical analysis of nearly a hundred dictionaries has allowed us to determine how best to measure the semantic distance between languages from...

One important consideration in dictionary-making has been that of space. To conserve space in paper dictionaries, a number of principles, strategies and conventions have been employed. With the gradual transition of the dictionary to the electronic medium, some of these strategies and conventions have lost or changed their significance. For one thing, it is no longer sufficient to speak of dict...

This paper proposes a method of constructing a dictionary for a pair of languages from bilingual dictionaries between each of the languages and a third language. Such a method would be useful for language pairs for which wide-coverage bilingual dictionaries are not available, but it suffers from spurious translations caused by the ambiguity of intermediary third-language words. To eliminate spu...

This paper presents how we adapted a website search engine for cross language information retrieval, using the Uplug word alignment tool for parallel corpora. We first studied the monolingual search queries posed by the visitors of the website of the Nordic council containing six different languages. In order to compare how well different types of bilingual dictionaries covered the most common ...

The purpose of the present study is to check how well monolingual learners' dictionaries cope with sensitive field mental ill health. subject considered worthy attention in view high prevalence health problems among young people, at whom are primarily targeted. To obtain a picture situation, twelve names common issues have been looked up six English (five British and one American). analysis zoo...

Abstract The paper examines whether the authors of very first Polish Sign Language dictionary, Słownik mimiczny dla głuchoniemych i osób z nimi styczność mających ‘A gestural dictionary for deaf and dumb persons who have contact with them’, published in 1879, may been influenced by any spoken monolingual dictionaries available at that time. As there is no historical documentation about circumst...

This is a preliminary study of research development for creating dictionary high-frequency words (HFW). Thus, this tries to analyze the need ILF learners as users HFW their learning. A list should be used in learning so that objectives can achieved effectively. Unfortunately, word not yet available. The learners, especially those at beginner level, still have difficulty using Great Dictionary I...

The amount of information available on the web is increasing rapidly. The number of internet users is also increasing every day. A significant section of internet users is monolingual. They want to express themselves in their native language and also seeking information in the same. Hence, multilingual content over the internet is also increasing at a rapid pace. There is a need of systems whic...