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From: eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Any English/X Dictionaries On-Line?
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 14:22:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 14:22:31 1985
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	My computer (Unix) contains a spelling program for
error detection.  This program includes a list of all the common english words.
Are there any english / foreign-language
dictionaries on line?  I envision a file containing line entries:
english word -> counterpart word.
This is a very simplistic approach,
and many ambiguities arise.  An english german cross-reference would have
to contain the two entries "go -> gehen" and "go -> fahren".
Without further information, you wouldn't know which verb to use.
However, such a cross-reference would be a start.
One of the first AI natural language projects
(an overly ambitious one at that) was a russian/english translator.
It must have had such an internal lexical map.
I am primarily interested in german, russian, and french.
Anything useful on line for these languages?
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