Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie NY  USA

Equipe Langue et Dialogue LORIA/CNRS Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy FRANCE

This is the first release of the XCES, which instantiates the EAGLES Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) DTDs for linguistic corpora, developed by the Department of Computer Science,Vassar College, and Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS.

We are developing documentation to support XCES. However, the existing CES documentation supporting general encoding practices for linguistic corpora and tag usage is largely relevant to the XCES instantiation, and should be consulted. XCES is continually under development and future work will include making the XCES compliant with TEI P5.

Contents

• XCES SCHEMAS
  • XCES Schema Overview and Download
    • Validation
    • Usage
  • XCES Header
    • XCES stand-alone header
    • New Elements (for spoken transcriptions)
  • XCES Base Types
    • Attribute types
    • Element types
    • String types
  • XCES Linking
    • Linking in cesAna Documents
    • Linking in cesAlign Documents
    • Example: Linking with stand-off annotation

• XCES DTDs

• XSLT scripts