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title: "Interactive Vocabulary Acquisition in XTRA"
authors:
  - "Cheng-ming Guo"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/142"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0142.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "715-716"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Interactive Vocabulary Acquisition in XTRA

Cheng-ming Guo

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 715-716.

## Abstract

This paper describes a _j)l"actical solution to online dictionary update in X1RA, a machine transla,.. tion system developed by Xiuming Huang at the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University. The focus of the discussion in on IVES -- an Interactive Vocabulary Enrichment System built by this writer for X1RA, It reflects an ongoing effort at the laboratory to build embedded learning mechanisms in machine translation systems. Two types of learning are discussed, word lear(ling and word sense learning. Each type of learning undergoes three routine processes: detection, acquisition, and evaluation. The emphasis of this paper is on the use of semantic preference violations in the detection of the need to learn new word senses.