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The work presented here is situated in the broader project of creating of multilingual lexical resources with a focus on Asian languages.
In the paper, we describe the design of the upper-level we are creating for our multi-lingual lexical resources. Among the current efforts devoted to this issue our work put the focus on (i) the language diversity aiming at massively multi-lingual resource, and (ii) the attention devoted to the ontological design of the upper level.
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Huang, CR., Prévot, L., Su, IL., Hong, JF. (2007). Towards a Conceptual Core for Multicultural Processing: A Multilingual Ontology Based on the Swadesh List. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_2
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