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  <Title>AN EDITOR FOR THE EXPLANATORY AND COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH (DECFC)</Title>
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5 CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described some problems and solutions related to the building of a specialized dictionary editor. Two tasks were identified: * defining and implementing a set of validation procedures to ensure an overall coherence and well-formedness throughout the dictionary; * defining and implementing a customized interface for an efficient interaction between lexicographs and the editor. We have implemented a prototype of the interface that will evolve as lexicographers express new or more specific needs. The team of lexicologists working on the DECFC showed a great interest for the project and the prototype. We are presently discussing with them the possibility of creating a fully functional system for their use.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Some of the validation rules and procedures implemented in our project were discussed in this paper and some not, but these are few compared to the large quantity of coherence rules that are still to be found. Building a complete formal description of something as complex as a natural language has never been done thoroughly. We believe that one of the main reasons for this is the lack of efficient and powerful tools. The DECFC editor is an attempt to provide such a tool for a specific linguistic theory. In other words, our efforts were not directed toward the creation of a linguistic database for natural language processing, but mainly toward providing efficient tools to help linguists achieve good and complete descriptions of natural languages. Those descriptions could then be used as the base of NLP systems.</Paragraph>
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