Intelligent Information Systems 2008 ISBN 978-83-60434-44-4, pages 451–460 Tools for Managing Multilingual Lexical Resources Aleˇ s Hor´ ak, Karel Pala, and Adam Rambousek Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanick´ a 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic {hales,pala,xrambous}@fi.muni.cz http://deb.fi.muni.cz/ Abstract In the paper we describe the results in the development of the tools for handling diverse multilingual lexical resources such as monolingual and multilingual dictio- naries, terminological dictionaries, complex lexicographic databases or WordNet semantic networks. All the presented tools are based on the Dictionary Editor and Browser (DEB) platform which uses standard XML formats. In this direction we strive to standardization of the lexical resources and also their interoperability. All the presented tools are freely available. We summarize the basic features of the DEB platform as a whole and then con- centrate on four applications: DEBDict (a general dictionary browser), DEBTerm (multilingual terminological dictionary editor), PRALED (Czech Lexical Database system) and Visual Browser (graphical semantic network browser). Keywords: DEB platform, dictionary editor and browser, dictionary writing sys- tems 1 Introduction The Dictionary Editor and Browser II (DEB ii) platform (Hor´ ak et al., 2006b; Hor´ ak and Pala, 2006) offers a development framework for any dictionary editing and browsing system application working with data structures that can be encoded in the XML format structures. In this way the DEB platform offers a ground for the standardized representation of lexical resources. In the paper we present the dictionary tool DEBDict that is designed and used for handling Czech lexical resources, namely main Czech dictionaries: three explanatory ones, one synonymical and one dictionary of Czech idioms and phrase- ology. Moreover, DEBDict offers the access to Web resources, two encyclopedias, integrated morphological analyzer of Czech and information from the Czech corpus SYN2000. Further, we present here also the editor and browser DEBTerm which is a tool for writing and browsing terminological lexical databases. The tool is presently tested with the fine art terminology (in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine Arts,