Abstract

This paper describes the outline of a lin- guistic annotation framework under de- velopment by ISO TC37 SC WG1-1. This international standard will provide an ar- chitecture for the creation, annotation, and manipulation of linguistic resources and processing software. The outline de- scribed here results from a meeting of ap- proximately 20 experts in the field, who determined the principles and fundamen- tal structure of the framework. The goal is to provide maximum flexibility for en- coders and annotators, while at the same time enabling interchange and re-use of annotated linguistic resources.