Criteria for the inclusion/exclusion of new distinctions

As regards the types of information to be included in the lexicons and the ``fine-grainedness'' of distinctions, the MULTEXT approach can simply be described in the following way:

• in principle, all the distinctions that seemed to complicate the process of disambiguation by means of an automatic tagger have been discarded;
• a specification for the encoding of a distinction has been included if it affects the word-form level, i.e. if a different graphical word-form is recognized by that feature.