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  <Title>Standards going concrete: from LMF to Morphalou</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Lexical resources play a crucial role in most applications related to human language technology.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> They may be used by both human readers and automatic processors for a wide range of activities that require an even wider variety of lexical structures. Some applications may demand broad linguistic coverage, where the word is the entry point and all the possible senses are attached to them, whereas other applications could require a concept-based organization of the lexical data, from which the relevant words (or terms) may be derived. Some applications barely need more then a simple list of words, whereas other may require a precise morpho-syntactic, syntactic and semantic description of the various lexical entries.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Furthermore, the huge cost of creating and maintaining a lexical resource in any of these domains requires that they should not be designed in isolation but that they may potentially be linked with one another for mutual enrichment.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> As a consequence, we believe that there is a strong need for more widely accepted methods for specifying lexical structures, so that the conditions under which the corresponding databases can exchange data are precisely defined. Moreover, it seems that enough knowledge has been gathered across the years to contemplate the idea that such technical principles and methods could be the source of an international standard that would preserve the possibility of both describing various types of formats and ensuring interoperability among them.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> This paper will present such a methodology as currently under discussion in the context of ISO committee TC 37/SC 4 in its on-going project called LMF (Lexical Markup Framework, which will become the future ISO 24613 standard). This international context also provides us with a unique opportunity to experiment with these most recent proposals in the context of the concrete necessity to deploy an open morphological dictionary for French (the Morphalou project). We will centre the discussion here on mapping the modelling principles that have been agreed upon so far in the LMF project with the actual requirements associated with the design of a morphological lexicon, hoping that it may lead to similar activities on lexical modelling in the future.</Paragraph>
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