Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper presents a proposal for a revolutionary type of electronic dictionary, one in which the potential is explored to link an automatically derived dynamic user profile to the proffered multimedia lexicographic output.Such adaptive and intelligent dictionaries may use the TshwaneLex dictionary production system at their core, to which a string of artificial intelligent components are added.This proposal is illustrated by means of the description of a project to compile an online Swahili to English dictionary.Swahili is both the most widely spoken African language, and the one sub-Saharan language most commonly taught throughout the world.As a theoretical framework for the development of this new type of electronic dictionary, the 'fuzzy answer set programming' framework (Van Nieuwenborgh et al. 2007) is advanced.
Author: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Universiteit Gent
OpenAlex ID: W2338525432