Guidelines for Linguistic Software Development GLOSIX Version 0 Jean Véronis, CNRS, Coordinator

Abstract

This document is a first sketch of the MULTEXT/EAGLES Guidelines for Linguistic Software Development. These guidelines will specify a General Lingware Open System Environment (GLOSIX), including recommended standards for all aspects of linguistic software development, data representation, linguistic annotation, etc. The establishment of such a set of guidelines will enable the interchange of tools and data among researchers and sites, compatibility among tools with potentially diverse functionality, and will in general contribute to the creation of reliable, portable, high quality linguistic tools.

Contents

Warning. The role of this outline is to show the scope aimed at by the MULTEXT/EAGLES Guidelines for Linguistic Software Development. However, many of the sections do not yet exist or are under construction; the final table of contents may differ from what is given here. Volunteers are encouraged to help in the development of any part of these Guidelines.

• GLOSIX Part 0. Overview
  • 0.1. Goals
  • 0.2. Principles
  • 0.3. What is linguistic software reusability?
  • 0.4. Scope and limitations
  • 0.5. Acronyms and abbreviations
• GLOSIX Part 1. Data representation
  • 1.0. Overview
  • 1.1. Characters
  • 1.2. Text
  • 1.3. Speech
  • 1.4. Linguistic annotation
  • 1.5. Linguistic resources
  • 1.6. Composite documents
• GLOSIX Part 2. Programming languages
  • 2.0. Overview
  • 2.1. C
  • 2.2. C++
  • 2.3. Lisp
  • 2.4. Prolog
  • 2.5. Perl
  • 2.6. SQL
  • 2.7. Awk
• GLOSIX Part 3. Tool environment
  • [Content to be defined]
• GLOSIX Part 4. Tool interfaces
  • 4.0. Internationalization
  • 4.1. Keyboard input
  • 4.2. Fonts
  • 4.3. Graphic user interfaces
  • 4.5. Command line interfaces
• GLOSIX Part 5. Tool documentation
  • 5.0. Overview
  • 5.1. On-line help
  • 5.2. User manuals
  • 5.3. Tutorials
• GLOSIX Part 6. Tool compatibility
  • [Content to be defined]
• GLOSIX Part 7. Tool testing
  • [Content to be defined]
• GLOSIX Part 8. Tool distribution
  • 8.0. Overview
  • 8.1. Organisation of servers
  • 8.2. Organisation of CD-ROMs
  • 8.3. Organization of packages
  • 8.4. Installation procedures

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.

Main 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

Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Patrick Paroubek, INaLF, Nancy

Vladimir Petkevic, Charles University, Prague

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

Please send comments and suggestions to veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr. Your feedback will be most appreciated.
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