Deep linguistic multilingual translation and bilingual dictionaries

This paper describes the MulTra project, aiming at the development of an efficient multilingual translation technology based on an abstract and generic linguistic model as well as on object-oriented software de-sign. In particular, we will address the is-sue of the rapid growth both of the trans-fer modules and of the bilingual databases. For the latter, we will show that a signifi-cant part of bilingual lexical databases can be derived automatically through transitiv-ity, with corpus validation.