The Problem
- Unification
- Many medium and large lexical resources
- From various sources, for various applications
- Incompatible formats
- Requirements
- Generic dictionary format
- Standardization of lexicon structure
- Multilingual
- Multi-application
- Theory-neutral
- Facilitate acquisition and maintenance
- Choices
- Typed Feature Structures
- Standardization: meta-schema
- Monolingual dictionaries with cross-dictionaries links
- OODBMS
- Unicode
