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

2. Content
Purposes of LACONEC
General Design
Functions
Conclusion

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

4. 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,

5. 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 %
10,000,000 to 99,999,999 82
1.2
1.3%
2,480,078,977 %
1,000,000 to 9,999,999
304
4.3
5.5%
915,659,448 %
100,000 to 999,999
943
13.3
18.8%
296,136,843 %
10,000 to 99,999
1,822
25.7
44.5%
61,802,734 %
1,000 to 9,999
1,982
27.9
72.4%
7,633,408 %
100 to 999
1,065
15.0
87.4%
464,299 %
10 to 99
338
4.8
92.1%
12,777 %
1 to 9
140
2.0
94.1%
560 %
206
2.9
97.0%
Unknown
212
3.0
100.0%
Totals
7,102
100.0
6,291,192,624
Distribution of world languages by number of first-language speakers (

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

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

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

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

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

11. Bilingual
Vietnamese
English
French
Japanese
Thai

12. Semantics-based Solution
Vietnamese
Japanese
Meaning
Thai
English
French

13. 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

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

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

17. Select Languages

18. Unilingual Lookup

19. Bilingual/Multilingual Lookup

20. ANDROID App.

21. Web version http://laconec.com

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

23. Quick Editing

24. Knowledge Editor

25. 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

26. User Scoring

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

28. 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

29.  Thank you!