<s>
A	O
multilingual	B-General_Concept
notation	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
representation	O
in	O
a	O
lexical	B-Application
resource	I-Application
that	O
allows	O
the	O
translation	O
between	O
two	O
or	O
more	O
words	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
instance	O
,	O
within	O
LMF	B-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
multilingual	B-General_Concept
notation	I-General_Concept
could	O
be	O
as	O
presented	O
in	O
the	O
following	O
diagram	O
,	O
for	O
English	O
/	O
French	O
translation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Within	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
a	O
multilingual	O
database	O
comprising	O
more	O
than	O
two	O
languages	O
,	O
usually	O
the	O
multilingual	B-General_Concept
notations	I-General_Concept
are	O
factorized	O
,	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
save	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
links	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
other	O
terms	O
,	O
the	O
multilingual	B-General_Concept
notations	I-General_Concept
are	O
interlingual	O
nodes	O
that	O
are	O
shared	O
among	O
the	O
language	O
descriptions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
But	O
in	O
the	O
specific	O
context	O
of	O
a	O
lexical	B-Application
resource	I-Application
that	O
is	O
a	O
bilingual	O
lexicon	O
,	O
the	O
term	O
bilingual	O
link	O
is	O
usually	O
preferred	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
term	O
is	O
mainly	O
used	O
in	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
Machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
and	O
NLP	B-Language
lexicons	O
.	O
</s>
