LMF for a selection of African Languages

Chantal Enguehard (1, 2) , Mathieu Mangeot (3, 4, 5)

1 LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
2 UN - Université de Nantes
3 GETALP - Groupe d’Étude en Traduction Automatique/Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole
4 LIG - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
5 USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc

Electronic resources are scarce regarding less-resourced languages, so it is wise to take published dictionaries and convert them into a standard format usable by automated tools for natural language processing. We introduce the notion of less- resourced languages and then discuss the methodology of conversion that we have defned and implemented. The fourth part presents examples of conversion from the initial published format to the LMF format. The last part describes some diffculties encountered when representing certain information into LMF format.

Mots clés: dictionary; LMF; DiLAF

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Chantal Enguehard, Mathieu Mangeot. LMF for a selection of African Languages. Francopoulo, Gil. LMF: Lexical Markup Framework, theory and practice, Hermès science, pp.8, 2013. ⟨hal-00959228⟩