MATE

MATE (Laila Dybkjaer)
The multi-partner EC-funded MATE project (Telematics Project LE4-8370) aims to develop an SGML-based standard for annotating spoken dialogue corpora, and tools to "make the processes of knowledge acquisition and extraction more efficient." Deliverable D1.1 surveys a wide variety of annotation schemes, and includes a useful page of links. MATE implements Thompson and McKelvie's notion of standoff markup, which is related to the CES and TEI proposals.