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  <Title>A Generic Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Lexical Database Development</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In order to cope with information available in many languages, modern information systems need large, high quality and multilingual lexical resources. Building such a resource is very expensive. To reduce these costs, we chose to use the &amp;quot;collaborative&amp;quot; development paradigm already used with LINUX and other open source developments.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In order to develop such a specific multilingual lexical database, we built a Web platform to gather an Internet community around lexical services (accessing many online dictionaries, contributing to a rich lexical database, validating contributions from others, sharing documents, ...). Initially built for the Papillon project, this platform is generic and allows for the collaborative development of other lexical resources (monolingual, bilingual or multilingual) provided that such resources are described to the platform.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> After presenting the Papillon project and platform, we will show how we may give access to many existing dictionaries, using an unified interface. Then, we will present the edition service, and detail how it may be customised to handle other very different dictionaries.</Paragraph>
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