TEI and LMF crosswalks
This work proposes a basis for a future ISO project to standardize lexical data representation, targeting researchers and practitioners in computational linguistics and lexicography.
The paper explores making the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines a serialization for the ISO LMF standard, addressing issues like informational coverage and using TEI's customization to fill gaps and support lexical projects.
The present paper explores various arguments in favour of making the Text Encoding Initia-tive (TEI) guidelines an appropriate serialisation for ISO standard 24613:2008 (LMF, Lexi-cal Mark-up Framework) . It also identifies the issues that would have to be resolved in order to reach an appropriate implementation of these ideas, in particular in terms of infor-mational coverage. We show how the customisation facilities offered by the TEI guidelines can provide an adequate background, not only to cover missing components within the current Dictionary chapter of the TEI guidelines, but also to allow specific lexical projects to deal with local constraints. We expect this proposal to be a basis for a future ISO project in the context of the on going revision of LMF.