The Tools group is charged with identifying and documenting existing and needed tools which will be the face of the cyberinfrastructure for ordinary working linguists. These tools include both those used by data providerscreators (linguists(e.g., linguists annotating data that they later share) and data consumers (e.g., weblinguists using the annotated portalsdata providingof accessothers to datacreate annotatednew bykinds of others).data).

Existing Tools

• TypeCraft Collaborative text annotation
• WALS The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
• ODIN Online Database of INterlinear glossed text
  

• TextGrid "TextGrid aims to create a community grid for the collaborative editing, annotation, analysis and publication of specialist texts. It thus forms a cornerstone in the emerging e-Humanities."

• Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) "Open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing, supporting dozens of NLP tasks, with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux."
• eHumanities Desktop (project is in alpha development stage, no description available yet)
• Roma: TEI validation tool "These pages will help you design your own TEI validator, as a DTD, RELAXNG or W3C Schema."

Needed Tools

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