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

信息技术对全球社会和经济产生的深刻影响要求开发各种手段，使全球能够获得大量目前无组织和相对无结构的材料，这些材料现在可供社会所有成员用于商业和娱乐、教学和学术研究。 这个项目的目的是确定一个核心国际基础设施的规模，这个基础设施可以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提供一个基础，目的是管理和普遍获取每天通过万维网提供的大量信息。具体而言，PI的目标是：在句法、形态句法和词汇语义三个层次上建立描述多词词条的统一标准; 确定在多语言词典中表达短语的现实目标，包括规模、范围、现有可用输入、额外输入和与其他词汇资源的链接，以及尚待获取的信息类型; 确定最能满足关键NLP应用需求的信息的类型和维度; 为联合软件和“灵件”开发项目指定总体架构; 指定合作项目的大纲，以获取和表示多种语言的多词词条; 通过为支持动词创建少量的多词条目，包括句法和形态句法，探索最终项目的可行性和维度; 并探讨通过部分句法分析、统计等手段从语料库中识别和获取多词词汇单位库的可能性。本研究将为多词表达的多语言词典的开发奠定基础，这是支持未来IT环境的重要和必不可少的资源。 这样，这项工作将直接有助于为地球仪上的个人和组织建立一个普遍可利用的、多种语文和多种文化的信息基础设施。

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.