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  <Title>Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry</Title>
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4 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Lexicon construction is a costly enterprise, and a major goal is to set up general initiatives to ease and optimise this process. The crescent needs of lexical data, both of general and of domain-specific nature, makes lexicon development an always incremental and potentially open effort, often to be carried out in distributed environments and through the joint work of multiple actors. It is therefore necessary to facilitate lexicon versioning and authoring, the fast integration and scalability of the resources, the fast integration of domain and general linguistic knowledge, as well as the integration of the work of human lexicographers with the information automatically extracted from corpora and dictionaries. The main purpose of the ISLE CLWG is to provide a satisfactory answer to these needs, by establishing a general infrastructure for lexical resources sharing. Its backbone is represented by the MILE, a lexical meta-entry, whose definition is now the focus of the CLWG activities. The MILE is a modular architecture for the representation of multilingual lexical data, and aims at becoming a common parlance for the representation and encoding of lexical data.</Paragraph>
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