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Ultimately, the same structure and content can be used for a number of different
purposes, from speech technology and printed dictionaries, to machine translation,
where, at the moment, individual standalone application specific standards exist.
Data from interoperable terminology and lexicography resources would not only
enrich each other, but also use the same software components and systems.
A bridge identified by many between terminological and lexical meta-models links
a term entry in the TMF to the lexeme entry in the LMF. Thus, either of the two
database implementations could be linked, or a super structure could be constructed
containing a superset of term entry and sense entry data categories organised on
concept or lexeme basis.
Figure 3: Bridging ISO’s TMF and LMF Meta_Model Structures
Linking lexical data and terminological data can improve the richness of a term’s
grammatical information beyond the capabilities of the TMF. Already noted above,
such a link would be an aid in the Welsh terminology standardisation process. In
adhering to ISO 860 recommendations, term candidates are evaluated for inflected
forms. Such inflected forms may exist already under the corresponding lexeme in its
Form->Inflections section, or may be simply added to improve the lexical database.
Larger opportunities for reuse exist if we realise that the adoption of standards in
the Welsh terminology could go beyond merely standardised translations, in particular,
adopting advanced aspects of the standards such as concept modelling.
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