Hi,
this could be of interest to some here...
Best,
Charles.
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De : Jeremy Fahringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date : 21 février 2008 19:49:22 HNEC
À : "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Objet : [dev] Announcement of Pangloss study: extending OpenOffice
for linguists
Répondre à : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Rosetta Project is happy to announce the Pangloss project, which
aims to
extend the open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org to allow it
to
interact natively with data types used by linguists working on
language
description. This project is being initiated by an NSF grant
(BCS-0715246)
funding an initial feasibility study which will focus on adding
capabilities
to OpenOffice.org for manipulating interlinear texts.
Interlinear texts are a special data type used by academic linguists
in
which sentences from a language being described are annotated with
multiple
lines of aligned text. The format generally consists of a sentence
from the
language being described on one line, followed by a line giving a
word-by-word translation of the text using standardized grammatical
markup
conventions, followed by a free translation of the entire sentence.
Other
annotation lines and various kinds of metadata may also appear,
depending on
the needs of the creator.
A simple example of such an interlinear text describing a sentence
from
Spanish using English as the description language is given below
(abbreviations are 1PL for first person plural, and OBJ.MRKR for
object
marker):
Lo vimos a Juan
him saw.1PL OBJ.MRKR Juan
"We saw Juan."
In its initial phase, the Pangloss project aims to develop an
extension for
OpenOffice.org, written in Python, to create and transform interlinear
glossed text data within the OpenOffice suite while storing the text
data in
an archival xml form within the OpenDocument format. The project goals
include development of a proof- of-concept extension, research into
standards for the encoding of interlinear glossed texts within the
OpenDocument format, and recommendations for best-practice
development in
these areas.
For more information and updates from the Pangloss project, visit:
http://www.rosettaproject.org/about-us/projects/pangloss
For more information about interlinear text standards, visit:
http://emeld.org/school/classroom/text/standards.html
We welcome any advice that members of the OpenOffice.org development
community may have for us as we move forward with this project. Please
contact Jeremy Fahringer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you have any
questions or comments.
--
Jeremy Fahringer
[Rosetta Project: Pangloss feasibility study]
http://www.rosettaproject.org
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