Existing annotation standards and resources

Original unorganized list that was incorporated back into the "white paper" on 2009-07-19:

• NXT System: Switchboard in NXT NITE XML Toolkit Video lecture by Jean Carletta: the NITE XML Toolkit Meets the ICSI Meeting Corpus
  
• E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Language Data): Homepage
  
• all of the annotation systems listed on the COCOSDA Corpus Annotation Tools page
• FrameNet
• ISO TC37 SC4 - Language Resource Management : Homepage
  
• ISO Morphosyntactic Annotation Format (MAF)
• ISO Syntactic Annotation Format (SynAF)
• ISO Semantic Annotation Format - Time and Events (SemAF-TIME) (formerly TimeML)
  
• ISO Lexical Markup Framework (LMF): Homepage (with Publications and Tools)
• ISO Data Category Registry for linguistic concepts
  
• GOLD (General Ontology for Linguistic Description)
• Leipzig Glossing rules
• the various ToBI conventions
  
• various standards for gesture annotation, such as
• David MacNeil's Gesture annotation
  
• BTS sign transcription system
• NEUROGES-ELAN system: workshop series homepage
  
• [look at ANVIL page and LDC list for more?]
  
• ...
  
• CHAT
• various schemes for annotating discourse topic structure and attentional structure, such as:
• DAMSL
  
• and other schemes documented and discussed at the 1998 DRI meeting
  
• Phone segment tagging symbols, including both:
  
• IPA and its various ASCII-fications, such as SAMPA, WorldBet
• and language-specific phoneme-segment encodings such as ArpaBet for American English and the CSJ encoding for Japanese
• Typecraft: a labeling system which, for any verb construction of a given language, provides a template for that construction type displaying its argument structure, in a fashion as transparent as possible. The template is constructed from a universally established inventory of labeling primitives.
  http://www.typecraft.org/tc2wiki/Verbconstructions_cross-linguistically_-_Introduction
  
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• various (lineages of) POS tagging systems such as:
• FILL IN HERE FOR ENGLISH TREEBANK, etc., etc., etc.
  
• tags for short-unit word (SUW) and long-unit word (LUW) in the CSJ
  
• text transcription symbols promoted on the LDC Corpus Cookbook page for transcription/symbols
• International Standards for Language Engineering (ISLE)
  
• ...
  

Existing Annotation Format Standards

• ISO Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF) Overview and Draft Standard (under revision)
• XML Serialization for LAF : ISO Graph Annotation Format (GrAF)

• XML Corpus Encoding Standard (XCES)