Exchange Formats: TBX, OLIF, and Beyond

Abstract

Th is paper tries to comment on some of the standardisation eff orts in the area of exchange formats for lexical resources. Th e fi rst family of standards was centred around terminological data, producing exchange formats like MATER/ MARTIF and TBX, based on an organisation of the data as concepts and (language-specifi c) terms. When the exchange of fully annotated lexical data came into play, standards like OLIF and MILE were proposed; they focus on the representation and the exchange of (mono- and multilingual) dictionary entries and their attributes (Thurmair/Lieske 2002). Recent developments are organised around the creation of markup frameworks, try to defi