EAGLES Synopsis and Comparison of Morphosyntactic Phenomena Encoded in Lexicons and Corpora. A Common Proposal and Applications to European Languages

The objective of the present document is to propose a common core set of morphosyntactic destinctions to be encoded in lexicons of the European languages. Computational lexicons represent an area where a pressing need is felt for the provision of basic large-scale resources which must be actually reusable, interchangeable, shareable and also integrable in a multilingual environment. In terms of cost and effort it is quite expensive to produce such resources in detail. In the construction of large-scale resources and in the definition of annotation strategies, reusability is an essential require to pursue (Calzolari 1994). If we want to produce and exchange Natural Language resources which are effectively shareable, and possibly usable by the same set of basic tools, with results of processing which are really comparable and integrable, we should aim at designing and producing these resources according to a common set of consensual and broadly agreed specifications, i.e. standards (Calzolari and Zampolli 1994): TEL:: +39 50 560481