XMELLT: Cross-lingual Multi-word Expression Lexicons for Language Technology

XMELLT：语言技术跨语言多词表达词典

• 批准号: 9982069
• 负责人: Nancy Ide
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: Vassar College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-01 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9982069&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: XMELLT; Cross; lingual; Multi; word

The profound effect that information technology is having on the global society and economy dictates the development of means to enable global access to the huge volumes of currently disorganized and relatively unstructured materials that are now available to all members of society for business and pleasure, teaching and scholarship. This project aims to define the dimensions of a core international infrastructure that can support the creation of a multi-lingual multi-word expression lexicon incorporating both morpho-syntactic and semantic information, and which will provide a base for building pivotal natural language applications aiming at management of, and universal access to, the vast quantity of information that is becoming available each day via the World Wide Web. In particular, the PI's aims are: To establish uniform standards for describing multi-word lexical entries at the levels of syntax and morpho-syntax and lexical semantics; To identify realistic objectives for the representation of phrasal expressions in a multi-lingual lexicon, in terms of size, scope, existing usable input, additional input and links to other lexical resources, and information types still to be acquired; To determine the type and dimensions of the information that will best serve the needs of critical NLP applications; To specify an overall architecture for a joint software and "lingware" development project; To specify the outline of a collaborative project to acquire and represent multi-word lexical entries for multiple languages; To explore the feasibility and dimensions of the eventual project by creating a small number of multi-word entries for support verbs, and including syntax and morpho-syntax; And to explore the possibilities of recognizing and acquiring a repertory of multi-word lexical units from corpora by means of partial parsing, statistics, etc. This research will lay the ground for development of a multi-lingual lexicon for multi-word expressions, an important and essential resource to support the future IT environment. In this way, the work will contribute directly to the creation of a universally accessible, multi-lingual and multi-cultural information infrastructure for individuals and organizations across the globe.

信息技术正在对全球社会和经济产生深远影响，这就要求发展各种手段，使全球能够获取大量目前杂乱无章和相对无结构的材料，这些材料现在可供所有社会成员用于商务和娱乐、教学和学术。该项目旨在确定核心国际基础设施的范围，该基础设施能够支持建立一个包含形态句法和语义信息的多语种多词表达词典，并将为建立关键的自然语言应用程序奠定基础，这些应用程序旨在管理和普遍获取每天通过万维网获得的大量信息。主要目标是：在句法、形态句法和词汇语义层面建立描述多个单词词条的统一标准；在大小、范围、现有可用输入、额外输入和与其他词汇资源的链接以及仍待获取的信息类型方面，确定在多语言词典中表示短语表达的现实目标；确定最能满足关键自然语言处理应用需要的信息的类型和维度；规定联合软件和“语言软件”开发项目的总体结构；具体说明获取和代表多种语言的多词词条的合作项目的大纲；通过创建少量支持动词的多词词条，并包括句法和形态句法，来探索最终项目的可行性和规模；以及探索通过部分句法分析和统计等手段从语料库识别和获取多词词汇单位的可能性。这项研究将为开发多词表达的多语言词典奠定基础，这是支持未来信息技术环境的重要和必要的资源。这样，这项工作将直接有助于为全球各地的个人和组织创建一个普遍可访问、多语言和多文化的信息基础设施。