We aim at providing an overview and a comparison of multilingual and Machine Translation (MT) related issues that emerge and that are handled within the major European projects in the lexical area (ET-7, Acquilex I and If, Multilex, Genelex, ET-10 Semantic Analysis of Cobuild, ET-10 Collocations, ET-10 Statistical Text-corpora based complements for Eurotra, Delis, Eurolang and Eagles), most of ...