Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms
The central object of computer lexicography is a computer or electronic dictionary, which must have a sufficiently large vocabulary, provide the consistent extraction of information depending on the user’s need and provide complete grammatical information about the words of input and output language...
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doaj-2cd9eb1a9daf48fb95bd73dd0b1fe7ff2021-07-29T08:38:33ZengBelarusian National Technical UniversitySistemnyj Analiz i Prikladnaâ Informatika2309-49232414-04812019-02-0104748210.21122/2309-4923-2018-4-74-82184Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical termsM. V. Makarych0Y. B. Popova1M. O. Shved2Belarusian National Technical UniversityBelarusian National Technical UniversityBelarusian National Technical UniversityThe central object of computer lexicography is a computer or electronic dictionary, which must have a sufficiently large vocabulary, provide the consistent extraction of information depending on the user’s need and provide complete grammatical information about the words of input and output languages. Taking into account the current trend in the development of special terminological dictionaries, the authors propose an English-Belarusian-Russian dictionary of technical terms. At the initial stage of the work the dictionary was named TechLex and covers the following subject areas: architecture and construction, water supply, information technology, pedagogy, transport communications, economics, energy-supply. Currently, each subject area of the dictionary is located in the Internet GoogleTable and contains about 1000 terms. It has the possibility to be simultaneously filled by several teachers. The linguistic database of the dictionary is not created by the traditional way of processing a large number of paper dictionaries and combining the received translations. Lexis from sequential processing of scientific and technical English periodicals of particular subject areas is the base of it. The software of the proposed electronic dictionary is designed taking into account the analysis of modern electronic multilingual translation dictionaries and is a client-server application in Java programming language. The client part of the system contains a mobile application for the Android operating system, which was tested on tablets and smartphones with different screen diagonals. The interface of TechLex dictionary is designed in such a way that only a single zone is activated according to the query, so there is no need to view all the subject areas of the dictionary. The proposed TechLex dictionary is the first technical multilingual electronic dictionary with an English-Belarusian-Russian version.https://sapi.bntu.by/jour/article/view/239электронный словарькомпьютерный словарьангло-белорусско-русский словарьсловарь технических терминовэлектронный технический словарьсловарь techlex |
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M. V. Makarych Y. B. Popova M. O. Shved Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms Sistemnyj Analiz i Prikladnaâ Informatika электронный словарь компьютерный словарь англо-белорусско-русский словарь словарь технических терминов электронный технический словарь словарь techlex |
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Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms |
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Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms |
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Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms |
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Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms |
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Linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms |
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linguistic database and software for english-belarusian-russian dictionary of technical terms |
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Belarusian National Technical University |
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Sistemnyj Analiz i Prikladnaâ Informatika |
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The central object of computer lexicography is a computer or electronic dictionary, which must have a sufficiently large vocabulary, provide the consistent extraction of information depending on the user’s need and provide complete grammatical information about the words of input and output languages. Taking into account the current trend in the development of special terminological dictionaries, the authors propose an English-Belarusian-Russian dictionary of technical terms. At the initial stage of the work the dictionary was named TechLex and covers the following subject areas: architecture and construction, water supply, information technology, pedagogy, transport communications, economics, energy-supply. Currently, each subject area of the dictionary is located in the Internet GoogleTable and contains about 1000 terms. It has the possibility to be simultaneously filled by several teachers. The linguistic database of the dictionary is not created by the traditional way of processing a large number of paper dictionaries and combining the received translations. Lexis from sequential processing of scientific and technical English periodicals of particular subject areas is the base of it. The software of the proposed electronic dictionary is designed taking into account the analysis of modern electronic multilingual translation dictionaries and is a client-server application in Java programming language. The client part of the system contains a mobile application for the Android operating system, which was tested on tablets and smartphones with different screen diagonals. The interface of TechLex dictionary is designed in such a way that only a single zone is activated according to the query, so there is no need to view all the subject areas of the dictionary. The proposed TechLex dictionary is the first technical multilingual electronic dictionary with an English-Belarusian-Russian version. |
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электронный словарь компьютерный словарь англо-белорусско-русский словарь словарь технических терминов электронный технический словарь словарь techlex |
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