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  <Title>Towards Developing Reusable NLP Dictionaries</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We discussed how a multilingual lexical database can be coustructed using a nmnber of existing lexical resources and lexicography. The TFS formalism is very appropriate for the design and implementation of NLP lexicons.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We showed that its hierarchical structure can be n~d profitably in a data entry tool which allows the lexicographer to manipulate feature structures graphically.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Lexical acquisition from existing lexical resources can be combined seamlessly with lexicographie work.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The lexicon architecture we designed is an important improvement over earlier approaches: various abstraction levels and the mappings between them are defined more precisely, and the modularity is increased significantly by the ~paration of the knowledge base from language-specific dictionaries.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> With respect to the issue of reusability, we outlined a framework for the specification of comparative description of linguistic encoding schemes. This specification can be used operationally as translation rules to convert lexical data.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Acqa~s I)E COLING-92, NANTES. 23-28 Aoffr 1992 $ 9 PROC. Oi; COLING-92, NANTES. AUG. 23-28, 1992</Paragraph>
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