Bilingual dictionaries present special difficulties for the lexicographer who is determined to employ the computer to facilitate his editorial work. In a sense, these dictionaries include evdrything contained in a normal monolingual edition and a good deal more. The singlelanguage definition dictionary is consulted as the authority on orthography, pronunciation and stress-pattern, grammar, leve...

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...

Bilingual word embeddings represent words of two languages in the same space, and allow to transfer knowledge from one language to the other without machine translation. The main approach is to train monolingual embeddings first and then map them using bilingual dictionaries. In this work, we present a novel method to learn bilingual embeddings based on multilingual knowledge bases (KB) such as...

1 Introduction Current electronic dictionaries don't do much more than simple search of the information. While these systems may save the user the time turning pages, it looses the functionality of allowing users to flick through the other words of the language, or see the entries near by. Electronic Dictionaries open up many ways of accessing the vocabulary, other that alphabetically. This pro...

We report on two different approaches to the incorporation of adjectives in Spanish WordNet based on automatic extraction techniques using EuroWordNet and machine-readable dictionaries. We show that a monolingual dictionary approach enables to exploit relations between different parts of speech and enrich the internal structure of the Spanish WordNet, while the methods based on bilingual dictio...

This paper proposes a method for automatically sense-to-sense aligning dictionaries in different languages (focusing on Japanese and English), based on structural data in the respective dictionaries. The basis of the proposed method is sentence similarity of the sense definition sentences, using a bilingual Japanese-to-English dictionary as a pivot during the alignment process. We experiment wi...