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  <Title>Qualitative Evaluation of Automatically Calculated Acception Based MLDB Aree Teeraparbseree</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The Papillon project1 aims at creating a cooperative, free, permanent, web-oriented environment for the development and the consultation of a multilingual lexical database. The macro-structure of Papillon is a set of monolingual dictionaries (one for each language) of word senses, called lexies, linked through a central set of interlingual links, called axies. Axies, also called interlingual acceptions, are not concepts, but simply interlingual links between lexies, motived by translations found in existing dictionaries or proposed by the contributors. Figure 1 represents an interlingual database that links monolingual resources in three languages: French, English and Japanese. The interlingual acceptions (axies) are linked to lexies from each language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> For instance, a lexie for the French word &amp;quot;terre&amp;quot; is linked through an axie to two lexies for the English words &amp;quot;earth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;soil&amp;quot; and to a lexie for the Japanese word &amp;quot;tsuchi&amp;quot;. Note that an axie can be refined into a set of axies. For instance, a lexie for the English word &amp;quot;chair&amp;quot; is linked through axie1 to two lexies for the French words &amp;quot;fauteuil&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;chaise&amp;quot;. Axie1 can be refined into two axies axie11 and axie12 as illustrated in figure 2.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2">  This pivot macrostructure has been defined by (Serasset, 1994) and experimented by (Blanc, 1999) in the PARAX mockup. The microstructure of the monolingual dictionaries is the &amp;quot;DiCo&amp;quot; structure, which is a simplification of Mel'cuk's (Mel'cuk et al., 1995)</Paragraph>
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