Back to the roots: building a French-Japanese dictionary

Mathieu Mangeot (1, 2)

1 LISTIC - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et de la Connaissance
2 USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc

After four years of life, the Papillon project is dying. In this paper, I summarise the current situation and then give my opinion of the reasons why we did not achieve what we planned four years ago. Then, taking these reasons as a starting point I propose to go back to the original aim of the project, i.e. to build an online bilingual French-Japanese dictionary free of rights. I describe the macro and microstructures, the new methodology and the existing data we could (re)use in order to build at once a bidirectional bilingual dictionary with links that can be directly inte- grated afterwards in a multilingual pivot database. This (sub)project serves several goals: first, to build the dictionary itself of course, second, to motivate and federate contributors around a project and a platform, third, to advertise the Papillon project, fourth, to test the platform and the methodologies in real conditions and fifth, to build linked data that can be reused in a more long term for the Papillon Multilingual database. Of course, I cannot achieve this alone, so I am looking for support from your part!

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Mathieu Mangeot. Back to the roots: building a French-Japanese dictionary. Proc. of Papillon 2005 Workshop, Dec 2005, Chiang Rai, Thailand, France. pp.52-58. ⟨hal-00968628⟩