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This contribution describes the theoretical foundations and lexical engineering procedures used in developing a common, consistent, linguistically and formally well-defined lexical database for all components of the Verbmobil speech-to-speech translation system.

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Gibbon, D., Lüngen, H. (2000). Speech Lexica and Consistent Multilingual Vocabularies. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation. Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4_21

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