From an informal textual lexicon to a well-structured lexical database: an experiment in data reverse engineering

Author

Huet, Gérard

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. de Recherche en Inf. et Autom., Le Chesnay, France

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

135

Abstract

We present an experiment in data reverse engineering in the field of computational linguistics. We explain a methodology which preserves to a great extent the original input format, allowing parallel acquisition/updating of the data with processing at a more structured representation level. We motivate the use for such applications of Objective Caml, a functional programming language with strong static typing, parametric modules and meta-linguistic technology

Keywords

computational linguistics; data acquisition; data handling; database management systems; functional languages; reverse engineering; Objective Caml; computational linguistics; data reverse engineering; functional programming language; informal textual lexicon; input format preservation; meta-linguistic technology; parallel data acquisition; parallel data updating; parametric modules; strong static typing; structured representation level; well-structured lexical database; Computational linguistics; Databases; Dictionaries; Encoding; Functional programming; Internet; Natural languages; Reverse engineering; Search engines; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Eighth Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Stuttgart

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1303-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2001.957816

Filename

957816