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  <Title>Application Adaptive Electronic Dictionary with Intelligent Interface</Title>
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2 Related work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A vast amount of research in the field of electronic dictionaries concentrate on data unification, representation, organization and management with the major focus on multilingual dictionaries as, for example, in (Wong, 2000; Boitet et al.,2002).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Multilingual electronic dictionaries often include a database of cross-referenced unilingual dictionaries with the use of interlingua such as ontology (Onyshkevich and Nirenburg, 1994)) or a pivotal language (Boitet et al.,cf.).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The architecture of such dictionaries normally include a lexical database and a set of tools for data management, - visualisers, editors, defaulters, etc. (Khatchadourian, 1992). A user-friendly interface is one of the major issues still uderdeveloped (Bilac and Zock, 2003).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> XML and SGML data representation languages (Boitet et al., cf.) have been a successful approach to facilitate the export of electronic dictionaries to different applications though many dictionaries use their own internal data representation formats (Fedder, 1992).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Finally, it is desirable for electronic dictionaries to be stand-alone modules with defined interfaces for interaction with other linguistic applications (Pointer project report, http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/ai/pointer).</Paragraph>
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