Considerations for the Reusability of Linguistic Software Jean Véronis and Nancy Ide, CNRS

Abstract

MULTEXT joined efforts with the EAGLES sub-group on Tools, established in spring 1995 (in the last phase of the EAGLES project), to address linguistic software reusability and work toward the establishment of Guidelines for Linguistic Software Development. This document reports on the first phase of the work and outlines general goals and principles for the development of the guidelines.

Contents

• Introduction
• Goals
• Whose needs will be served?
  • Academic community
  • Industry
• What is linguistic software reusability?
  • Usability
  • Portability
  • Compatibility
  • Extensibility
• General principles
• Topics to be addressed
  • Usability
  • Portability
  • Compatibility
  • Extendability
• Conclusion
• Annex 1 - Relevant standards
  • Character sets
  • Translitteration
  • Language and country codes
  • Document encoding
  • Software
• Annex 2 - International organisations
• Annex 3 - Bibliography

Acknowledgements

This document results from joint effort of the European projects EAGLES (in particular, the EAGLES Tools subgroup) and MULTEXT. The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has also supported the integration effort.

Authors

Jean Véronis
Nancy Ide

Laboratoire Parole et Langage
CNRS & Université de Provence
29, Avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France
tel : (+33) 42 95 36 34
fax : (+33) 42 59 50 96
e-mail: veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr

Contributors

Various people have commented and sent feedback on previous versions of this document. Special thanks to:

Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, England

Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, England

Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Llubljana, Slovenia

Gil Francopoulo, GSI-ERLI, Paris, France

Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Patrick Paroubek, INaLF, Nancy, France

Vladimir Petkevic, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Laurent Romary, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, France

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