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  <Title>A Generic Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Lexical Database Development</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The Papillon platform is still under development. However, it already proves useful for the diffusion of a little less than 1 million entries from 12 very different dictionaries. This is possible as, from the very beginning, we designed the platform to be as a generic as possible.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This genericity also allows for its use for the on-line development of the Papillon database.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> It is also used for the development of the Estonian French GDEF dictionary, managed by Antoine Chalvin from INALCO, Paris. Moreover, we developed an interface for the japanese German WadokujiTen (Apel, 2004). This proves that our platform may be useful in a general context.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Our future activities will follow 3 axis: * improving the definition of edition interfaces; currently, we have no tool to simplify this definition and its complexity makes it difficult for a linguist to use it without help from computer science specialists; * generating different interfaces from the same descriptions; currently, we only generate on-line HTML interfaces, but the tools we use allows for the development of interfaces in other contexts; hence with the same approach, we will develop java applets or java applications to be used either on-line or off-line; * developing network cooperation modules between several instances of the Papillon platform; this will allow the deployment of the platform on several sites; we will address two aspects of such a deployment; first, duplication of identical instances providing access and edition services on the same dictionaries; second the deployment of several instances providing access and edition services on different dictionaries (where dictionaries edited on a site may be accessed on another site).</Paragraph>
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