Passive and active contribution to multilingual lexical resources through online cultural activities

Abstract

In this paper we are proposing a contribution scheme for multilingual (preterminology). Preterminology is a lexical resource of unconfirmed terminology. We are explaining the difficulties of building lexical resources collaboratively. And we suggest a scheme of active and passive contributions that will ease the process and satisfy the Contribution Factors. We experimented our passive and active approaches with the Digital Silk Road Project where we analyzed visitors' behavior to find interesting trends and terminology candidates. And we built a contribution gateway that interacts with the visitors in order to motivate them to contribute while they are doing their usual activities.