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  <Title>Preliminary Lexical Framework for English-Arabic Semantic Resource Construction</Title>
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6 Conclusion and future research
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A general Framework for lexical resource construction was presented in the context of English-Arabic semantic resource combination.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The initial evaluation of the Framework looks promising in that it was successfully applied to combine five English-Arabic resources. The stages of the Framework provided a useful guideline for lexical resource combination and can be applied to resources in any language. We plan to extend the evaluation of the Framework to a more in depth intrinsic evaluation where the quality of the mappings is tested. An extrinsic evaluation should also take place to evaluate the combinatory lexical resource as part of the CLIR system. As for future research we hope to extend the evidence combination algorithms to include more sophisticated information using back translation and transliteration.</Paragraph>
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