Encoding and Presenting Interlinear Text Using XML Technologies

Hughes, B. and Bird, S. G. and Bow, C. (2003) Encoding and Presenting Interlinear Text Using XML Technologies. In Knott, Alistair and Estival, Dominique, Eds. Proceedings Australasian Language Technology Workshop, pages pp. 105-113, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Interlinear text is a common presentational format for linguistic information, and its creation and management have been greatly facilitated by the development of specialised software. In earlier work we developed a four-level mode and corresponding formal specification for interlinear text. Here we describe a suitable XML representation for the model and show how it can be rendered into a variety of convenient presentational formats. We conclude by discussing architectural extenstions, and application programming interface for interlinear text, and prospects for embedding the interlinear model into existing applications.