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/Press Release – immediate
Paris, France and Tel Aviv, Israel, October 12, 2023/
*Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual
Lexical Data Dissemination*
ELDA and Lexicala by K Dictionaries are delighted to announce their new
cooperation on distributing Language Resources for 50 languages.
ELDA is now making available Lexicala’s high-quality lexical data
designed to enhance language learning, and support Machine Translation
and diverse Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
applications.
The Lexicala resources consist of different groups of datasets.
Fulldescriptionscan be found in the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources
under the following links:
1. *GLOBAL Multilingual Lexical Data*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=ELRA-M0111>: a
network of lexicographic cores for major world languages, comprising
monolingual cores, bilingual pairs, and multilingual combinations
for 25 languages.
2. *MULTIGLOSS Multilingual Glossaries*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=ELRA-M0112>: a
series of innovative word-to-sense glossaries for over 30 languages
into 45 more languages.
3. *Morphological lexicons*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=ELRA-L0203>:
extensive morphological lists linking inflected forms to main lemmas
for 15 languages.
4. *Parallel Corpora & Domains*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0336/>:
parallel corpora for nearly 400 language pairs and numerous
multilingual combinations, featuring general language and vertical
domain vocabularies.
5. *Biographical & Geographical Names*:
* *English BIO Biographical Names*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0204_01/>:
4,200 dictionary entries regarding prominent persons worldwide.
* *English GEO Geographical Names*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0204_02/>:
7,200 dictionary entries regarding major locations worldwide.
* *GEOLINGUAL Tables*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0205/>:
multilingual tables of over 200 countries and geographical names
– including their adjectives, persons, and main languages – in
16 languages.
* *Audio Pronunciation*
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=ELRA-S0490>*&
Phonetic Transcription*: human voice recordings of single-word
lemmas and multiword expressions, as well as IPA and alternative
scripts for 21 languages.
For more information, please write to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>.
* About Lexicala*
Lexicala by K Dictionaries offers multi-layer lexical data for and
across 50 languages, relying on 30-year experience in pedagogical and
multilingual lexicography worldwide. Lexicala converges manual content
creation and curation with automated data processes and helps to enhance
machine translation and other natural language processing applications,
as well as language learning and model training.
To find out more about Lexicala, please visit:https://lexicala.com/
<https://lexicala.com/>
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*About ELDA*
The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)
identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along
with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human
Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills
in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and
international projects in the field of HLT.
To find out more about ELDA, please visit: http://www.elda.org/
<http://www.elda.org/>
