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And if translation were just a matter of looking up words in a dictionary, these programs would run circles around humans.
A rule-based translation program uses a lexical database, which includes all the words you'd find in a dictionary and all grammatical forms they can take, and set of rules to recognize the basic linguistic elements in the input language.
Perhaps by the time we encounter intergalactic life forms, we'll be able to communicate with them through a tiny gizmo, or we might have to start compiling that dictionary, after all.
My job is to put every word possible into the dictionary.
Because if you look up the word "justice" in the dictionary, before punishment, before administration of law or judicial authority, you get: "The maintenance of what is right."
And I think if you're looking for the meaning of something, the dictionary is a decent place to start.
If you look it up in the dictionary, something virtual is something that seems to exist but is not real.
And the first thing I planned to do when I got home was to look up the word "feminist" in the dictionary.
And when I looked up the word in the dictionary that day, this is what it said: "Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes."
Solidarity is a term that many wish to erase from the dictionary.
I would rather leave these definitions to the philosophers and to the dictionary.
And they spent a lot of time huddled over a dictionary.
In other words, unlike the word hope, which one could look up in a dictionary and derive origins for, and, perhaps, reach some kind of a consensual use analysis, these are essentially contested concepts.
Well, one thing you can do if you want to know what glamour means is you can look in the dictionary.
And it actually helps a lot more if you look in a very old dictionary, in this case the 1913 dictionary.
There might not be a word in the dictionary that more of us are connected to than love.
It's like the dictionary; it's hard to look things up by the third letter.
I read a dictionary.
I brought guidebooks to trees, to birds, and what would become his favorite book, the dictionary.
I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of play, number one, was engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor, and number two was gambling.
And when I did, I thought, well, I'd better look this word up in the dictionary.
Basically, in every round you get a randomly assigned letter on each Siftable, and as you try to make words it checks against a dictionary.
Hedge can count the letters in each stack and organize them into a dictionary, which is a tidy way of storing information.
So, our dictionary for describing cancer is very, very poor.
So, it is the idea of sequencing all of the genes in the cancer, and giving us a new lexicon, a new dictionary to describe it.
Actually, in fact, if you look in the dictionary, many dictionaries define pursuit as to "chase with hostility."
The alien (a human in sparkly suit) claims to be from a nearby universe; one assumes the scriptwriter meant "galaxy" but didn't bother to get a dictionary to check his terms.
The story is about an English colonialist jerk that comes to Malaysia to "civilize the savages" so to speak and ends up falling in love with his sleeping dictionary.
A sleeping dictionary is a native Malaysian prostitute fluent in English that services Englishmen colonialists and teaches them her native language in return for ... well the movie never really makes that clear, but I can only assume he gives her money or something.
It will surprise most that this word can actually be found in the dictionary, defined as: "nonsense.. uninteresting, dull, lifeless".
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