LMF Reloaded

The Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) or ISO 24613 [1] is a de jure standard which constitutes a framework for modelling and encoding lexical information both in retrodigitised print dictionaries as well as in NLP lexical databases. An in-depth review is currently underway within the standardisation sub-committee, ISO-TC37/SC4/WG4 with the goal of creating a more modular, flexible and durable follow up to the original LMF standard published by ISO in 2008. In this paper we will showcase some of the major improvements which have so far been implemented in the new version of LMF