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The Lexical Database System (LDB) is a computer system which provides
efficient and flexible database-like access to multiple mono- and
bilingual machine-readable dictionaries. It is configurable to new
dictionaries, and supports a user in formulating queries to retrieve
subsets of entries from one or more dictionaries. It forms part of the
basic infrastructure software of the Esprit ACQUILEX project.
The LDB is designed to be easy to use and user-friendly. On appropriate
machines it may be driven almost entirely by mouse, using graphical
displays, windows and pop-up menus to display data, results, user
commands and choices. It has powerful look-up options (including
conjunction, disjunction and negation operators, and wildcarding) making
it easy to extract desired classes of words from an MRD. The LDB also
provides a programmatic interface, allowing applications conveniently to
retrieve data from dictionaries.