A generic collaborative platform for multilingual lexical database development

Abstract

The motivation of the Papillon project is to encourage the development of freely accessible Multilingual Lexical Resources by way of online collaborative work on the Internet. For this, we developed a generic community website originally dedicated to the diffusion and the development of a particular acception based multilingual lexical database.The generic aspect of our platform allows its use for the development of other lexical databases. Adapting it to a new lexical database is a matter of description of its structures and interfaces by way of XML files. In this paper, we show how we already adapted it to other very different lexical databases. We also show what future developments should be done in order to gather several lexical databases developers in a common network.

Passive and active contribution to multilingual lexical resources through online cultural activities

“…For example, Papillon [7,8] which is a Jibiki-based [9] general purpose collaborative multilingual dictionary, could not attract direct contribution. ITOLDU [10] collected 17000 English-French terms in 20 technical domains from 250 French students (learners of English) but it was not a sustainable activity.…”

Multilingual legal terminology on the Jibiki platform

“…The corpus bank is developed by adapting the bistro system (Streiter et al, 2006;Streiter et al, 2004). The term bank is based on the Jibiki plat-form (Mangeot et al, 2003;Sérasset, 2004).…”