LMF Standardized Model for the Editorial Electronic Dictionaries of Arabic

Abstract

This paper is interested in the development of the Arabic electronic dictionaries of human use (editorial use). It proposes a unified and standardized model for these dictionaries according to the future standard LMF (Lexical Markup Framework) ISO 24613. Thanks to its subtle and standardized structure, this model allows the development of extendable dictionaries on which generic interrogation functions adapted to the user’s needs can be implemented. This model has already been carried out on some existing Arabic dictionaries using the ADIQTQ (Arabic DIctionary Query Tool) system, which we developed for the generic interrogation of standardized dictionaries of Arabic.