Differences

1. Information grouping
   
   • MULTILEX has an architecture which distinguishes two nodes (graphical, phonological and morphological information attached to the GPMU, and syntactic, semantic and transfer information attached to the LU node). GENELEX has a three-level-architecture, distinguishing a morphological, a syntactic and a semantic level.
   • LU (MULTILEX) corresponds to USYN and USEM in GENELEX.
2. Variation
   Form variation is not identically described in GENELEX and MULTILEX:
   • in MULTILEX, multiple GPMUs, identifying orthographic, phonological and morphological sets of attributes, that are related to the same LU,
   • UM can have mutiple values in each of its level- wise attributes (orthographic, phonological, morphological)
3. General approach
   The MULTILEX architecture is designed as a multilingual language-independent overall structure including all the language-specific models, while the GENELEX architecture is abstracted from a French monolingual dictionary model.
4. Terminology
   MULTILEX proposes a model integrating general language and term description.