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A Formal Model of Dictionary Structure and Content

Computation and Language 2007-07-24 v1

Abstract

We show that a general model of lexical information conforms to an abstract model that reflects the hierarchy of information found in a typical dictionary entry. We show that this model can be mapped into a well-formed XML document, and how the XSL transformation language can be used to implement a semantics defined over the abstract model to enable extraction and manipulation of the information in any format.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3270,
  title  = {A Formal Model of Dictionary Structure and Content},
  author = {Laurent Romary and Nancy Ide and Adam Kilgarriff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3270},
  year   = {2007}
}
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