LACONEC A Large-scale Multilingual Semantics-based Dictionary Lê Khánh Hùng, Trần Cảnh, Võ Công Minh, Lê Hồng Minh

Content Purposes of LACONEC General Design Functions Conclusion

Purposes Cross-lingual lookup and reference Preserving languages at risk A Multilingual Knowledge Base for NLP’s Tasks

Multilingual Reference and MT Google Translate & Dictionary - 91 languages Babylon Dictionary - 75 languages Yandex Translate - 63 languages Microsoft Bing Translator - 51 languages Vietnam - more than 100 languages The World - more than 7,100 languages,

Many Languages are dying Population range Living languages Number of speakers Count Percent Cumulative Total >100,000,000 8 0.1 0.1% 2,529,403,578 40.20547 40.20547% 10,000,000 to 99,999,999 82 1.2 1.3% 2,480,078,977 39.42144 79.62691% 1,000,000 to 9,999,999 304 4.3 5.5% 915,659,448 14.55462 94.18154% 100,000 to 999,999 943 13.3 18.8% 296,136,843 4.70717 98.88870% 10,000 to 99,999 1,822 25.7 44.5% 61,802,734 0.98237 99.87107% 1,000 to 9,999 1,982 27.9 72.4% 7,633,408 0.12133 99.99241% 100 to 999 1,065 15.0 87.4% 464,299 0.00738 99.99979% 10 to 99 338 4.8 92.1% 12,777 0.00020 99.99999% 1 to 9 140 2.0 94.1% 560 0.00001 100.00000% 206 2.9 97.0% 0.00000 Unknown 212 3.0 100.0% Totals 7,102 100.0 6,291,192,624 100.00000 Distribution of world languages by number of first-language speakers (https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size)

Languages in Vietnam 5 Dying Languages 37 Languages in Trouble 50 Vigorous Languages 16 Developing Languages

NLP Applications Machine Translation Proofing Multilingual Full-text Content Search Text Mining Answering OCR, ASR Information retrieval

Limitations of Current MT Systems The small number of languages Low quality The Absence of reliable reference dictionary No Semantic Processing No Language Understanding

The overall design of LACONEC Problems to be solved Multilingual Solution Cloud computing

Problems Huge Database Dayly Changes of Lexicon Dictionary’s Quality Control

Bilingual Vietnamese English French Japanese Thai

Semantics-based Solution Vietnamese Japanese Meaning Thai English French

require as useful, just, or proper Example require as useful, just, or proper involve exiger quy định 要求 postulate ต้องการ nécessiter require đề nghị 求める demander ปรารถนา demand yêu cầu 要する requérir necessitate วางเป้าหมาย đòi hỏi 要求+する take

Functions of LACONEC Look up Editing Knowledge and User Rating Future Developments

Lookup Selection of languages Lookup monolingual Lookup bilingual, multilingual Lookup on the web Lookup in applications Windows App Android App [iOS, MAC]

Select Languages

Unilingual Lookup

Bilingual/Multilingual Lookup

ANDROID App.

Web version http://laconec.com

Editing Editing directly in lookup window Knowledge Editor Creating Relationships Lexical Relations Semantic Relations Pragmatic Relations Adding new languages

Quick Editing

Knowledge Editor

Knowledge Ranking Automatic Data Gathering WordNets Open source Bilingual Dictionaries News, Encyclopaedias, Multilingual Sites Update manually from the Community Automatic Content Ranking Remembering users’ actions User Scoring

User Scoring

Future Developments Dictionary Expansion More Languages Multimedia External Links  Multilingual corpus Interlingual Machine Translation & Proofing Multilingual Full-text Content Search

Conclusion http://laconec.com LACONEC can be used as: A Multilingual General Purpose Dictionary A Database for NLP’s Tasks For Preserving Languages-at-risk around the world An Environment for Research in Contrastive Linguistics

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