Of nodes and cells. Two perspectives on (and from) Word Formation Latin

The LiLa: Linking Latin project involves the creation of a Knowledge Base of linguistic resources for Latin based on the Linked Data framework. The ultimate goal is to reach full interoperability on the web between distributed lexical and textual resources. LiLa integrates all types of annotation applied to a particular word/text into a common representation where all linguistic information contained in a linguistic resource becomes accessible. The LiLa Knowledge Base is thus a collection of resources represented with a shared vocabulary of (meta)linguistic knowledge description. The inclusion in the Knowledge Base of information on word formation, extracted from the Word Formation Latin lexical resource, raised a number of theoretical and practical issues concerning its treatment and representation. This paper discusses such issues, presents how they were addressed in the project with the help and implementation of a Word Paradigm theoretical model, and describes how the word formation data were included in the LiLa ontology.