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远影响决定了各种手段的发展，使全球能够访问大量目前杂乱无章、结构相对松散的资料，这些资料现在可供社会所有成员用于商业、娱乐、教学和学术。该项目旨在定义一个核心国际基础设施的维度，该基础设施可以支持创建包含词法和语义信息的多语言多词表达词典，并将为构建关键的自然语言应用程序提供基础，这些应用程序旨在管理和普遍访问每天通过万维网提供的大量信息。具体而言，PI的目标是：在语法、形态语法和词汇语义层面建立描述多词词汇条目的统一标准；确定在多语言词典中表达短语的实际目标，包括大小、范围、现有可用输入、额外输入和与其他词汇资源的链接，以及仍需获取的信息类型；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；为联合软件和“lingware”开发项目指定总体架构；指定一个协作项目的大纲，以获取和表示多种语言的多词词汇条目；通过为支持动词创建少量多词条目，并包括语法和词形语法，探索最终项目的可行性和维度；并探讨利用部分解析、统计等方法从语料库中识别和获取多词词汇单位的可能性。这项研究将为多词表达的多语言词汇的发展奠定基础，这是支持未来IT环境的重要和必不可少的资源。通过这种方式，这项工作将直接有助于为全球个人和组织创建一个普遍可访问的、多语言和多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.