Corpus Encoding Standard (CES)

• Host: Vassar College Department of Computer Science
• URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/

Description:

MULTEXT, along with EAGLES and the Vassar/CNRS collaboration (supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation), have developed a Corpus Encoding Standard that will "serve as a widely accepted set of encoding standards for corpus-based work... The CES is specifies a minimal encoding level that corpora must achieve to be considered standardized in terms of descriptive representation (marking of structural and typographic information) as well as general architecture (so as to be maximally suited for use in a text database). It also provides encoding specifications for linguistic annotation, together with a data architecture for linguistic corpora." The CES is available in SGML, and XML.

Contact:

Nancy Ide

Department of Computer Science

Vassar College

Poughkeepsie, New York 12601

USA

Tel : +1 914 437 5988

Fax : +1 914 437 7498

Email: ide@cs.vassar.edu