<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Paper uid="W04-1603">
  <Title>Preliminary Lexical Framework for English-Arabic Semantic Resource Construction</Title>
  <Section position="1" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="abstr">
    <SectionTitle>
Abstract
</SectionTitle>
    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes preliminary work concerning the creation of a Framework to aid in lexical semantic resource construction. The Framework consists of 9 stages during which various lexical resources are collected, studied, and combined into a single combinatory lexical resource. To evaluate the general Framework it was applied to a small set of English and Arabic resources, automatically combining them into a single lexical knowledge base that can be used for query translation and disambiguation in Cross-</Paragraph>
  </Section>
class="xml-element"></Paper>