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.

SF Tickets

This is an informal list of tickets in the scope of interest of our SIG. Edit as appropriate.

• Bugs #3174515 suggested values of form@type
• FR #3266021 dictionary entires with a single sense
• Bugs #3080658 definition of 'entry'
• Bugs #3285020 irregularities in <gram> syntatic sugar variants
• FR #3288293 create @refLang, add it to att.pointing

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.
• The next meeting is scheduled for the upcoming TEI-MM in Würzburg on Friday, 14 October 2011, 11-12:30h, Hubland-Campus, ZHSG 1.005. Basic goals:
  • get the bibliography into a workable and extensible shape, note that this may require some XSLT work on a TEI-to-Zotero(RDF) conversion (to be co-ordinated with Kevin Hawkins, on whose agenda this issue is independently of LingSIG),
  • establish SIG infrastructure that makes it possible for us to do some joint work together'
  • a series of micro-presentations of active linguistic projects has been planned; details here .

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

Bibliography

The SIG would like to put together and maintain a bibliography of works relevant to linguistics and markup (TEI in particular but not only -- the world is full of sources of inspiration). The bibliography is maintained as a separate page and everyone is warmly welcome to add links or references to the relevant works.

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