... be of primary importance for any "real life" system involving a large lexical data base is what I would call "practical requirements" and has to with the complexity of the task of creating a lexical ... instance, a translation system or any other type of natural language processing program that must be able to handle very large amounts of text necessitates dictionaries of substantial size, of ... order of at least tens of thousands of entries, perhaps even more than I00,000 lexical entries Needless to say the task of creating as well as the one of updating such huge databases represents an...