Multext Specifications and proposed standards

An important aspect of the Multext effort has been to contribute to the standardization of data, tools, and linguistic resources, in order to maximize reusability in corpus-based language engineering research and applications. Where appropriate, work has been done in collaboration with larger umbrella standardization efforts, such as EAGLES and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

The reports below represent the work to date, and not all of them have reached the same level of completion. In all cases, the current draft proposals are intended to solicit discussion, evaluation, and user feedback, in order to enable their further refinement.

Available documentation

• Corpus encoding
  • Corpus Encoding Standard

• Lexical specifications
  • Western European languages (tex)
    • French part (newer version) (html)
  • Eastern European languages (tex)

• Morphosyntactic tagging
  • Étiquetage grammatical multilingue: modèle

• Speech
  • Prosody Encoding Survey

• Linguistic software
  • Considerations for Linguistic Software Reusability
  • Guidelines for Linguistic Software Development

You are invited to send comments and feedback to multext@lpl.univ-aix.fr.