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A prerequisite for lexical acquisition is to define the following items:
- An application dependent lexicon model
which defines relevant types of lexical information.
- A lexical database model which defines the storage structure for lexical information.
- A characterisation of the sources of lexical data
(e.g. orthographic transcriptions,
other databases;
manual information provided systematically or
ad hoc by a lexicographer)
- Definition of procedures for constructing a lexicon from the data on the basis of these models and sources.
- Definition of procedures for validating the consistency of the database.
- Definition of procedures for extracting complex lexical information (e.g. coverage statistics for attributes and attribute combinations).
- Tools for implementing the procedures.
The logistics involved in these procedures are entirely non-trivial in a large
project or consortium, and especially so with
a complex spoken language understanding system
or speech-to-speech translation system.
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