Myanmar Lexicon

Thin Zar Phyo, Wunna Ko Ko

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 Contents

● Introduction
● What is Lexicon?
● Myanmar Lexicon
● Lexique Pro
● Myanmar Lexicon with Lexique Pro
● Conclusion

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 Introduction

●
A south-east Asian country.
● Burmese is the official language.

● Burmese script comes from

Brahmi Script.
● There are more than 100

languages used in Myanmar.

● Myanmar includes Burmese,

Karen, Mon, Shan and other ethnic

languages used in Myanmar.

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 Lexicon

● It is a useful language resource for both

localization experts and computational
linguistics.
● It includes information about:
– the form and meaning of words and phrases
– lexical categorization
– the appropriate usage of words and phrases
– relationships between words and phrases, and
categories of words and phrases

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 Myanmar Lexicon
● The participating organizations include:
– Ministry of Education
– Myanmar Unicode & NLP Research center
– Myanmar Language Commission
● Includes over 35000 head words. The word counts do
not include word grouping.
● Field markers are chosen based on Multi Dictionary
Format (MDF). It consists of a set of word meanings
and their semantic relationships.
● Myanmar Language Commission supply necessary
information and collection of word list.
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Myanmar Lexicon
(in paper format)

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 Lexique Pro
● It is designed to build dictionary/lexicon especially for
complex scripts.
● It is an open source software and can run on Windows OS.
● It is a product of SIL, formerly known as Summer Institute
of Linguistics.
● The primary functions of Lexique Pro are to:
– Create a dictionary,
– View and edit an existing Shoebox/Toolbox dictionary database,
– Share a database with other computer users,
– Export a dictionary to print as a text document, or html format for
web publication.

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 Lexique Pro (Contd.)

● It can export the lexicon into the following formats:

– Rich Text Format (.rtf),
– Microsoft Word 2007, Office Open XML (.docx),
– OpenOffice.org (.odt or .sxw) in one of three
formats:
– Alphabetical dictionary
– Classified dictionary (by category)
– Index table based on a gloss language.

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 Field markers of
Myanmar Lexicon

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 Myanmar Lexicon with Lexique Pro

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 Categories tab in Myanmar Lexicon

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 Myanmar Lexicon in MS Word 2007 format

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 Myanmar Lexicon in html format

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 Conclusion

● The developed lexicon is available in CD format. To be

available online in near future.
● This can help in development of statistical machine
translation, Text-To-Speech (TTS), Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR).
● This is a general lexicon but with full features of field
markers and Part-of-Speech (POS).
● For particular use, this may not be usable as it is.

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 Thank you for your Attention.

Please send your Questions & Comments to:

Thin Zar Phyo (myanmar.nlp5@gmail.com)

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