LERIL : Collaborative Effort for Creating Lexical Resources

TL;DR

This paper discusses a collaborative approach to developing lexical resources for Indian languages, including transfer lexicons, dependency tree banks, and bilingual dictionaries, to support language processing tasks.

Contribution

It introduces a collaborative model for creating diverse lexical resources for Indian languages, integrating transfer lexicons, dependency trees, and bilingual dictionaries.

Findings

Successful development of transfer lexicons and grammars for Indian languages.

Creation of dependency tree banks based on the Paninian model.

Compilation of bilingual dictionaries of core meanings.

Abstract

The paper reports on efforts taken to create lexical resources pertaining to Indian languages, using the collaborative model. The lexical resources being developed are: (1) Transfer lexicon and grammar from English to several Indian languages. (2) Dependencey tree bank of annotated corpora for several Indian languages. The dependency trees are based on the Paninian model. (3) Bilingual dictionary of 'core meanings'.