The ISLE Deliverbale D2.1-D3.1 from the ISLE Computational Lexicons Working Group is based on previuos EAGLES work on monolingual lexicon standards, and present a survey of the major existing bilingual and multilingual lexical resources.
Each resouce has been investigated to determine its lexical structure and how it encodes cross-language relationships. The survey documents the results in a format that allows easy comparison of the lexical mechanisms employed by each lexicon considered.
The emphasis of the survey is on the semantic level of description as benefits a multilingual perspective, however other levels of lexical information are also taken into account, where these have a bearing on interpretation and on corss-language mapping.
This work was undertaken to enable the subsequent identification of a set of basic notions needed to describe the multilingual level, together with other notions that may be recommended for particular purposes or languages.