Preliminary Thoughts on Issues of Modeling Japanese Dictionaries Using the OntoLex Model

Recent works aiming at making Linked Data dictionaries make use of the Lemon or OntoLex models. Application to existing dictionaries revealed the need for extensions to the model to properly deal with lexicographic data without loss of information. These works however focus on languages found in Europe, and thus let the issue of Est-Asian lexicography for future exploration. This paper provides a small typology of existing dictionaries in Japan and exposes issues in existing related works that could form the ground of new modules for OntoLex.