Dictionary Building with the Jibiki Platform: Software Demonstration

Overview & Synopsis

The Jibiki platform is an online generic environment for writing and querying all kinds of dictionaries: terminological glossaries, bilingual dictionaries, multilingual lexical databases, etc. It has been developed mainly by Mathieu Mangeot (Université de Savoie, France) and Gilles Sérasset (Université de Grenoble 1, France), thanks to research driven by the GETA team of the CLIPS laboratory in Grenoble, France. The platform allows one to lookup all the dictionaries available on the server and to display the results in the same window. The advanced query interface offers a combination of multiple search criteria. The writing of the entries is done directly online on the platform via a web browser. The writing interface is generated automatically from the description of the structure of the entries (an XML schema), thus allowing the edition of (almost) any type of dictionary entry.