Web-application for Presentation of Bulgarian Language Heritage: Bilingual Digital Corpora and Dictionaries

Abstract

The paper describes three software packages – the main components of a software system for processing and web-presentation of Bulgarian language resources – parallel corpora and bilingual dictionaries. The author briefly prese nts current versions of the core components “Dictionary” and “Corpus” as well as the recently developed component “Connection” that links both “Di ctionary” and “Corpus”. The components main functionalities are described as well. Some examples of the usage of the system’s web -applications are included.

Web-based Software System for Preservation of Language Cultural Heritage

“…The previous and next pair together with the target pair is displayed as well. At the end of the displayed result table (where the pairs are listed) a link, which redirects the user to the dictionary database, appears -there he can request and perform another search [1], [4].…”

“…The need to develop a common user interface arose with the idea to create a homogeneous system which processes digital bilingual resources with Bulgarian. The user has the possibility to "see" the information from the both databases, which is very well structured and systematized [1], [4]. The "Home-page" module consists of a query form with a text field where the user can enter the word of his information search and choose where to search via a check-box.…”