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Re: Fwd: Arabic and the Universal dictionary



On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:16:33PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 13:55 -0400, Youcef Rahal wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Ing. Zdenek Broz <zdenek dot broz at gmail dot com>
> > Date: Jun 21, 2006 8:17 PM
> > Subject: Arabic and the Universal dictionary
> > To: contact at arabeyes dot org
> > 
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> > We are working on a system called the Universal dictionary. It is based
> > on English definitions of wordnet thesaurus and beside English the
> > system contains more than 40 world languages. Arabic is very important
> > language but we do not have enough input dictionaries to add Arabic into
> > the system. We only have your English-Arabic dictionary. To add Arabic
> > entries automatically we would need German-Arabic and for example
> > Spanish-Arabic dictionaries so we could eliminate the ambiguity of
> > English words. Our system is pretty similar to Global wordnet grid. At
> > http://www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/wordnet_table.htm it is said that
> > Christiane Fellbaum is already working on entries for Arabic. Do you
> > know this person? I have sent him a mail but got no answer. If I would
> > have the file he is creating everyone would have more than 40 Arabic
> > dictionaries.
> > 
> Don't you guys think this is really helpful?
> أنا صراحة أعتقد ذلك

Why don't you take the lead and start working on it ?? ;-)

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