Project Summary

Progress and results

Specifications:

• Lexical specifications for seven European languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish), comprising the first large-scale application of and contribution to the EAGLES work in this area,
• Specifications for encoding corpora in SGML, comprising one of the first large-scale applications of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and subsequently adopted by EAGLES and PAROLE,
• Specification of a data architecture for linguistic corpora, providing the first hypertext view of such corpora.

Resources:

• The first freely available large-scale lexicons for the seven languages,
• The first freely available large-scale multilingual text corpus for the seven languages.

Tools:

• The first language-independent, parameterisable text tokeniser,
• The first freely available modular and language-independent part-of-speech tagger,
• The first freely available text aligner,
• The first freely available complete speech workbench,
• The first public SGML query-language interpreter,
• The first set of SGML-aware corpus exploitation tools.

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