Lexaurus: A Multidimensional, Ontology-based Bilingual Electronic Dictionary

Abstract

With the emerging technology through the computer resources, some of constraints we have accepted and lived with in connection with dictionaries yield places to some innovative projects. One such project is an electronic dictionary, which has words listed alphabetically but not limited to that ordering for information extraction. Lexaurus, a new type of dictionary, allows for extraction of groups of words according to some ontological categorizing, serving the roles of traditional dictionaries and thesauri as well. This paper outlines the major characteristics of our protocol system English-Korean lexaurus.