SIG:TEI for Linguists

Aims

This Special Interest Grooup 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 (forthcoming, expect 404/500 error)

Activities

The first official meeting of the SIG is scheduler for Saturday, 13 November 2010 at the TEI-MM in Zadar, in room PDS-1.

See also the section on LLiZ below.

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 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

Papers/presentations?

On using the TEI dictionary chapter as a default implementation of ISO 24613 (Lexical Markup Framework), let me quote http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00436328/fr/ ("Standardization of the formal representation of lexical information for NLP").

A presentation by the SIG conveners is scheduled during the TEI-MM-2010 Poster Slam and the poster session on Friday the 12th at 4 p.m. in Aula Magna.

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

LLiZ (Linguistic Lunch in Zadar)

The idea is to meet at an informal lunch during the TEI-MM in Zadar to see what common goals we may have and what we want to do about them.

Date: (let's decide whether we want a separate lunch, e.g. on Wednesday? or whether we turn it into a SIG breakfast on Sunday at 9.00 in room PDS-1)

Place: (let's decide in November; see above)

List of participants (add your name):

• Elena Pierazzo (who lit the spark, inspired by Piotr and Adam's talk -- or so they want to think)
• Piotr Bański (who dropped the last drop and suggested the meeting)
• Espen Ore
• Eleonora Litta
• Sabine Bartsch
• Andreas Witt
• Laurent Romary
• Lou Burnard
• ...