Combining Concepts and Their Translations from Structured Dictionaries of Uralic Minority Languages (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new method to expand the knowledge in existing dictionaries is proposed . small Uralic languages are facing a problem of limited language resources . |
| Approach: | They propose to combine conceptually divided translations from multilingual dictionaries for small Uralic languages into a single lexical entry. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to expand existing dictionaries and provide translations when adding new entries. |
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