MotàMot project: conversion of a French-Khmer published dictionary for building a multilingual lexical system

• Main Author: Mangeot, Mathieu
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2014
• Subjects: Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences; Pivot; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1405.5674; https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5674

Economic issues related to the information processing techniques are very important. The development of such technologies is a major asset for developing countries like Cambodia and Laos, and emerging ones like Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. The MotAMot project aims to computerize an under-resourced language: Khmer, spoken mainly in Cambodia. The main goal of the project is the development of a multilingual lexical system targeted for Khmer. The macrostructure is a pivot one with each word sense of each language linked to a pivot axi. The microstructure comes from a simplification of the explanatory and combinatory dictionary. The lexical system has been initialized with data coming mainly from the conversion of the French-Khmer bilingual dictionary of Denis Richer from Word to XML format. The French part was completed with pronunciation and parts-of-speech coming from the FeM French-english-Malay dictionary. The Khmer headwords noted in IPA in the Richer dictionary were converted to Khmer writing with OpenFST, a finite state transducer tool. The resulting resource is available online for lookup, editing, download and remote programming via a REST API on a Jibiki platform. : 8 pages, Languages Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik : Iceland (2014)