Creating Lexical Resources for Endangered Languages

This paper examines approaches to gener-ate lexical resources for endangered lan-guages. Our algorithms construct bilin-gual dictionaries and multilingual the-sauruses using public Wordnets and a ma-chine translator (MT). Since our work re-lies on only one bilingual dictionary be-tween an endangered language and an “in-termediate helper ” language, it is applica-ble to languages that lack many existing resources.