NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DEFI MATCHER

Abstract

This paper focuses on the treatment of an information field found in bilingual dictionaries such as the Robert-Collins (RC) and Oxford-Hachette (OH) and meant to guide the human reader towards the selection of the appropriate translation in context. The challenge is to make use of the information contained therein in DEFI, a computer tool aiming at ranking translations according to their degree of relevance to the context in which the item to be translated occusrs. In addition to the two bilingual dictionaries, the process calls on a number of lexical resources, namely Wordnet, Roget's Thesaurus, three monolingual dictionaries (LDOCE, COBUILD and CIDE) and a database of metalinguistic information derived from the bilingual dictionar