Tools and Resources

TIGER XML: Extensions and conventions

• Negotiate with TIGER team on common extensions/conventions for TIGER XML and TIGER tools.
• Ask TIGER team to update TIGER XML and tools.
• Ask TIGER team to turn TIGER and ANNOTATE tools into open source software, so that we can modify the tools on our own (inter-segmental links, command-line search, etc.).
• Ask TIGER team to include support for different visualization methods (eg, dependency graphs would be nice).

Discussion procedure

• Working group leader asks for proposals on ntn-list.
• People send in suggestions and comments to ntn-list.
• Standardization decisions made by consensus or on next meeting.
• Document standardization decisions on “Tools and resources” homepage (working group leader).

Extensions (discussion on nordic-treebank list)

Intersegmental

• Extend TIGER tools so that they can deal with intersegmental links.

Segmentation

• Decide on extension to TIGER XML for representing other kinds of segments than “s”, including overlapping or discontinuous segments (eg, utterances, turns).
• Extend TIGER tools so that they can deal with general segmentation.

Parallel alignment

• Decide on a standard method of representing parallel aligned treebanks in TIGER XML.

Conventions (discussion on nordic-treebank list)

Intersegmental links

• Decide on representation of intersegmental links in TIGER XML.

Dependency representation

• Decide on a standard way of representing dependency treebanks in TIGER XML so that dependency treebanks can be recreated from TIGER XML.

External source files and speakers

• Decide on a standard for linking annotations with segments in external file, and for specifying speaker identity.

Semantics (argument structure)

• Decide on a standard way of representing argument structure in TIGER XML.

Glosses

• Decide on a standard feature for encoding (English) glosses.

XML header

• Include <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”iso-8859-1” standalone=”yes”?> in XML header.

Other tasks (discussion on nordic-treebank list, links added to “Tools and resources” web page)

• Find out whether any other tools support TIGER XML.
• Make an inventory of tools that can use/import TIGER XML.