PanLex and LEXTRACT: Translating all Words of all Languages of the World

PanLex is a lemmatic translation resource which combines a large number of translation dictionaries and other translingual lexical resources. It currently covers 1353 language varieties and 12M expressions, but aims to cover all languages and up to 350M expressions. This paper describes the resource and current applications of it, as well as lextract, a new effort to expand the coverage of PanLex via semi-automatic dictionary scraping.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Timothy Baldwin, Jonathan Pool, Susan M. Colowick
• Keywords: COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, Lemmatic Translation Resource, Semi-automatic Dictionary Scraping, Translingual Lexical Resources