SIG:TEI for Linguists

Aims
This Special Interest Group is meant for those interested in linguistics, in the TEI, and in putting the two together.

Contact details, information

 * Mailing list subscription page
 * Official TEI SIG page

Activities
The SIG activities (will) include official meetings at TEI-MMs, conference reports and e-mail exchange on the mailing list. As part of its activity, the SIG will attempt to track and record papers that deal with using various markup standards for the purpose of encoding linguistic analyses and language resources.

Meetings

 * First official meeting: Zadar, 13 November 2010, Agenda. (See the preliminary minutes, to be moved to the official space when ready.) The meeting was preceded by the LLiZ (Linguistic Lunch in Zadar) and a poster presentation.

History

 * Here's how it began
 * TEI Guidelines have their apocrypha as well, here's one on corpus annotation. Note that it is absolutely non-normative, included here to give credit to the original Working Group and to provide a platform to either elaborate on or to diverge from.

The first official meeting of the SIG took place on 13 November 2010 at the TEI-MM in Zadar. This meeting was preceded by a reconnaissance lunch (we liked both the intel and the food) and a Poster Slam presentation (boyakasha...).

The most relevant chapters of the Guidelines

 * 8. Transcriptions of Speech
 * 9. Dictionaries: we need to have a plan so that the NLP community does consider this as a default vocabulary for representing NLP lexica (e.g. full form lexica)
 * 15. Language Corpora
 * 17. Simple Analytic Mechanisms
 * 18. Feature Structures
 * 20. Non-hierarchical Structures

Related SIGs

 * Ontologies
 * Tools
 * Overlap

Projects
TEI projects with a linguistic focus
 * FreeDict http://freedict.org/en/

Tools - reports of non-TEI linguistic tools working / not working with TEI

 * GATE doesn't do XML see XML parsing issue: consecutive empty elements mishandled
 * See also the TEI-influenced or TEI-based tools: Xaira, Textometrie, Poliqarp and Anotatornia