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

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 [[TEI for Linguists - bibliography|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 (buyakasha...).

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