As in previous years, the meeting will be accomponied by pre-conference workshops on various TEI related topics. Please make sure to register for participation in workshops as early as possible as places are limited.

The following workshops are open for registration:

• Analysing Electronic Dictionaries with TEI
• Tightening the Representation of Lexical Data, a TEI Perspective
• Combining Music Notation and Text - Encoding and Rendering MEI in TEI.

See below for details. In addition, several Tutorials will be offered.

Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 10-17h, Hubland-Campus, ZHSG 1.005

Workshop facilitator: Dietmar Seipel, Univ. Würzburg

Registration fee: US$ 50

The workshop deals with developing tools for analysing morphological processes in word formation that might be applicable for corpus research of complex words. Topics:

• tools for morphological analyses
• lexicographical structures
• word morphology
• language change
• variance between and within dictionaries
• modelling morpheme structures
• construction and analysis of meta-dictionaries in TEI
• parsing techniques for information extraction
• analysis of morpheme networks
• declarative languages for analysis

Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 10-17h, Hubland-Campus, ZHSG 1.005

Workshop facilitator: Laurent Romary

Registration fee: US$ 50

The “Print Dictionary” chapter of the TEI guidelines was initially conceived to represent human readable dictionaries, in particular in the case of the digitization of existing paper dictionaries. Its neat hierarchy of lexicographic concepts has also made it a very practical framework for representing machine-readable lexAleical data, even in very specific NLP applications. Still, as is often the case with the TEI guidelines in general, there are often many different ways to represent the same phenomenon, which is a potential hindrance for ensuring full interoperability between TEI based lexical applications. Finally, the recent publication of ISO standard 24613 (LMF – Lexical Markup Framework) has shown the necessity to identify a TEI based serialisation that would optimally map the concepts of the LMF meta-model.

The workshop will bring together representatives from various lexical database (both human- and machine-readable ones) initiatives to compare their practices in implementing the TEI guidelines. The format will be based on short presentations focusing on specific lexical phenomena and suggesting precise guidelines for their representations. The expected output of the workshop is a set of application guidelines to be used for machine readable dictionaries.

Contributions are expected in the wide variety of potential lexical structures. The following lists should just be seen as mere suggestions for possible topics:

• Representation of morphological information
• Additional grammatical features
• Constraints and dependencies between features
• Implementation of LMF components
• Standardisation of data categories (link to ISOCat)
• Tightening sense representation
• Multilingual lexical, link structures
• Derivations and related entries

Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 10-17h, Hubland-Campus, ZHSG 1.004

Facilitator: Johannes Kepper, Detmold

Registration fee: US$ 50

A large number of TEI projects  deal with texts containing music notation. These inclusions range from short melody or rhythm snippets to several pages of music. During the last year, the SIG Music has worked on the integration of TEI and MEI, requested a new element in the TEI and produced some guidelines.  The proposed workshop has two goals.

First, the current model will be discussed and evaluated against different kinds of source documents. It is intended to have an open discussion with participants currently not involved in the working group and work on their documents as well. The group has already had the opportunity to collect examples and opinions from several scholars; however, this workshop will incourage new contributions and will introduce the proposed model to the public.

The second part of the workshop will focus on rendering MEI. Currently, there is only a tool for converting MEI-encoded mensural notation into SVG, but nothing similar for Common Western Music Notation, which is a serious issue in TEI with MEI based workflows. An international group of specialists has already started to work on this. The problem of rendering MEI into SVG is indeed closely related to the work done by the SIG so far; many examples of music notation in text offer a wide range of complexity. Working on these can make a contribution to more generic stylesheets and tools. Although this second part of the workshop may be less suited for beginners, it is intended to be open to the public in order to gather diverse requirements from projects as varied as possible.