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

Mathieu Mangeot (1, 2, 3)

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

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.

Mots clés: MotÀMot; XML; Jibiki; Dictionary

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Mathieu Mangeot. MotàMot project: conversion of a French-Khmer published dictionary for building a multilingual lexical system. Languages Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland. pp.8. ⟨hal-00994800⟩