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

• Main Author: Mangeot, Mathieu
• Other Authors: Groupe d’Étude en Traduction Automatique/Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole (GETALP), Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry ), Financement Action de Recherche en Réseau AUF, Projet MotÀMot
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: MotÀMot; XML; Jibiki; Dictionary; [INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Pivot; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00994800; https://hal.science/hal-00994800/document; https://hal.science/hal-00994800/file/MANGEOT-Motamot_LREC2014-final_v1.pdf

8 pages International audience 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.