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  <Title>Virach Sornlertlamvanich TCL, NICT Thatsanee Charoenporn TCL, NICT</Title>
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2 The MILE framework for
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    <Paragraph position="0"> interoperability of lexicons The ISLE (International Standards for Language Engineering) Computational Lexicon Working Group has consensually defined the MILE (Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry) as a standardized infrastructure to develop multilingual lexical resources for HLT applications, with particular attention toMachine Translation (MT)andCrosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) application systems.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The MILE is a general architecture devised for the encoding of multilingual lexical information, a meta-entry acting as a common representational layer for multilingual lexicons, by allowing integration and interoperability between different monolingual lexicons  .</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This formal and standardized framework to encode MILE-conformant lexical entries is provided to lexicon and application developers by the over-all MILE Lexical Model (MLM). As concerns the horizontal organization, the MLM consists of two independent, but interlinked primary components, the monolingual and the multilingual modules. The monolingual component, on the vertical dimension, is organized over three different representational layers which allow to describe different dimensions of lexical entries, namely the morphological, syntactic and semantic layers. Moreover, an intermediate module allows to define mechanisms of linkage and mapping between the syntactic and semantic layers. Within each layer, a basic linguistic information unit isidentified; basic units are separated but still interlinked each other across the different layers.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Within each of the MLM layers, different types of lexical object are distinguished : * the MILE Lexical Classes (MLC) represent the main building blocks which formalize the basic lexical notions. They can be seen as a set of structural elements organized in a layered fashion: they constitute an ontology of lexical objects as an abstraction over different lexical models and architectures. These elements are the backbone of the structural model. In the MLM a definition of the classes is provided together with their attributes and the waythey relate toeach other. Classes represent notions like Inflec-</Paragraph>
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