RELISH Meeting in Nijmegen

On 4–5 August, the RELISH project held a workshop on lexicon tools and lexical standards. Slides from many of the presentations are posted on the workshop site.

An important goal of the workshop was to work towards harmonization of standards for lexical data, and it was noteworthy for including computational linguists, field linguists, and software engineers among its participants. In addition to discussion of existing standards like LIFT and LMF, there also appeared to be an emerging agreement among participants that ISOcat will soon be in a position to provide a useful backbone for interoperability via its data category registry.