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  <Title>An Overview of the EDR Electronic Dictianary and the Current Status of Its Utilization</Title>
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5 Conclusion and Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A number of dictionaries are currentry being developed under the name of electronic dictionaries (machine-readable dictionaries). These dictionaries consist of information li'om published dictionaries that has been stored on a recording medium, and which can then be referred to and used by mechanical means. However, these electronic dictionaries are referred to and used by people, unlike true electronic dictionaries (machine-tractable dictionaries), which in the strict sense are intended for use in machine processing. True electronic dictionaries are not simply machine-readable editions of dictionries for use by people. They must include all the information necessary for a computer to understand a natural language. We think that the EDR Electronic Dictionary satisfies those conditions and hope that it will be widely used for various natural language processing applications. null Finally we would like to make a short remark on the new project which EDR will launch in fiscal 1996. The new project will be funded by Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA) of Japan and will be carried out in conjunction with Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokyo University. The objective of the project will be the creation of a software that will allow the linguistic knowledge base to automatically expand by feeding the output of analyzed text into the knowledge base itself. We hope this will help refine and extend the EDR Electronic Dictionary. null</Paragraph>
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