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COP project 106 Multext-East Deliverable D1.1 F -- Introduction
The purpose of this document is to (i) provide harmonized lexical specifications for the six languages involved in the Multext-East project -- Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene -- and (ii) formulate the relevant notation to be used in the lexicons contributed by each language group.
The two proposals of lexicon specifications presented in the Multext\ D1-6-1B Deliverable of the Multext Project (Bel, Calzolari and Monachini eds. 1995) and in the Eagles document of the Lexicon sub-group on Morphosyntactic annotation (Monachini and Calzolari 1995) -- which is the basis of the previous one -- constitute together the starting point and the model of the work and results presented here.
The Multext-East partners have evaluated the two proposals from the point of view of the coverage with respect to their languages, have added the specifications needed to encode the peculiarities of their languages and have produced concrete applications of the proposed specifications. The work has been done through a cyclical process of adjustments and re-application, giving rise to three versions of this document: the initial IM1 version under the coordination from PISA, a subsequent, significantly revised and validated version at project milestone M, and this final version, incorporating the last changes to the language specific tables, the latter two coordinated by LJUBLJANA.
The result is the common proposal for lexicon specifications of the Central & Eastern European languages contained in Chapter 2. On the basis of the Eagles and Multext models, they are presented as sets of attribute-values -- displayed in tabular format -- and the notation proposed follows the ``string of characters in fixed positions'' strategy.
The applications of the proposal to the six languages are given in Chapter 3.They have been contributed respectively by:
The language application parts present the lexicon specifications category by category and are structured as follows:
Pisa, October 1995
Ljubljana, August 1997