General aims and objectives of the architecture work in EAGLES

• The objective of this subtask is to propose a multilingual and multifunctional model for a dictionary viewed as a resource out of which to extract specific application lexicons. This implies among others that no need arises for
  • particular devices for redundancy-free representation, except where redundancy would be problematic for the linguistic description;
  • any bias towards a given type of storage;
  • any bias towards one type of application.
• EAGLES should provide a stable, robust, practical core dictionary layout which is extensible. This implies an ordering of the topics to be dealt with: the simple and relatively easily described facts should be treated in the core of the EAGLES recommendations, more problematic or controversial things in later extensions.

  Extensibility implies keeping track of possibilities of adding and/or (whole classes of) descriptive devices, e.g. lexical rules (in syntax, morphology, semantics, etc.).

• The EAGLES core architecture must be simple. It must be proven to work, to cater for the major relevant phenomena and to be extensible.