General Linguistics Work Group
 
                        Objectives and Deadlines
 
                      Document Number:  TEI AI1P1
 
                   Draft November 9, 1990 (17:20:52)
 
 
                               Chapter 1
 
                               OBJECTIVES
 
 
1.    Reformulate this list of objectives.
2.    Prepare examples, several of which should be derived from pub-
      lished linguistic analyses, tagged according to the proposals of
      TEI P1.  Report on the relative strengths and weakness of the var-
      ious notations proposed.
3.    Evaluate the usability of the various notations with respect to
      the work of non-theoretical linguists. The needs of the following
      communities should be considered:
      *   corpus linguists analyzing whole corpora,
      *   stylo-statisticians lemmatizing all the words of a text
      *   philologists recording an analysis of a given passage.
      *   translators providing word level glosses
4.    Propose work groups, specifying their work plans and approximate
      time table, to improve and extend upon the basis laid in TEI P1
      for linguistic work.  Example topics for such work groups include:
      *   Development of a unified set of tags for part-of-speech analy-
          sis in Western-European (or:  Indo-European) languages,
          including their older forms).
      *   Development of special purpose notations for particular
          schools of linguistic analysis (e.g. categorial grammars,
          functional grammars, systemic grammars).
      *   Applicability of the basic mechanisms of TEI P1 to non-Indo-
          European languages.
      *   Development (possibly in co-operation with the WG on spoken
          texts) of special purpose tags for phonological and phonetic
          analyses.
5.    Respond to comments on the relevant portions of TEI P1 routed to
      this work group by the editors.
 
                               Chapter 2
 
                             ADMINISTRATIVE
 
 
   Work group reports to Committee for Text Analysis and Interpretation
Head of the work group is Terry Langendoen.  Four members of the work
group are to be named by the work group head; at least one should be a
European.
 
   Funding is authorized for one meeting.
 
                               Chapter 3
 
                               DEADLINES
 
 
   To be agreed with WG head.  Reformulation of objectives (AI1 P1) due
n/n/n.  Examples of TEI P1 tagging (AI1 W2) due n/n/n.  Evaluation of
TEI P1 tagging (AI1 W3) due n/n/n.  Proposal for further work groups
(AI1 W4) due n/n/n.  Paper on part of speech tags for Europe or IE lan-
guages (AI1 W5) due n/n/n.  Proposals for specialized notations (AI1 W5)
due n/n/n.
 
 
                                       Draft November 9, 1990 (17:20:52)