A Fast, Memory Efficient, Scalable and Multilingual Dictionary Retriever

Paulo Fernandes, Lucelene Lopes, Carlos A. Prolo, Afonso Sales, Renata Vieira


Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach to deal with dictionary retrieval. This new approach is based on a very efficient and scalable theoretical structure called Multi-Terminal Multi-valued Decision Diagrams (MTMDD). Such tool allows the definition of very large, even multilingual, dictionaries without significant increase in memory demands, and also with virtually no additional processing cost. Besides the general idea of the novel approach, this paper presents a description of the technologies involved, and their implementation in a software package called WAGGER. Finally, we also present some examples of usage and possible applications of this dictionary retriever.
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L12-1575
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2520–2524
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/966_Paper.pdf
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Paulo Fernandes, Lucelene Lopes, Carlos A. Prolo, Afonso Sales, and Renata Vieira. 2012. A Fast, Memory Efficient, Scalable and Multilingual Dictionary Retriever. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2520–2524, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Fast, Memory Efficient, Scalable and Multilingual Dictionary Retriever (Fernandes et al., LREC 2012)
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