LingDoc
0. Introduction to the Position Papers
In order to
clarify the approaches taken by LingDoc Transform and Clarity five position
papers have been written. They are:
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“1. Applications of Document
and Language Engineering“
as an overview of the applicability of
LingDoc.
o
“2. XML Up-Conversion“
as an example of a difficult problem in
Document Engineering, to be solved with LingDoc.
o
“3. Lingware Management for
Machine Translation and Controlled Languages“,
as an example of a difficult problem in
Language Engineering, to be solved with LingDoc.
o
“4. Grammar Formalisms“
as an overview of the formalisms of
Transform and Clarity, compared with other well-known grammatical formalisms.
o
“5. Parsing and Transduction
Technology“
as an overview of the technology used,
with relevant background material.
Recurring
issues in the position papers are:
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Natural Language Engineering
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Document Engineering
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Linguistic layers
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Description of structure
§
Lingware: grammars, lexicons,
thesauri
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Ambiguity
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Errors and inconsistencies
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Formal automata
§
Program generation
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Workbenches
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Development methodology.
Each issue
is (more or less) structured as follows:
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Description of issue / motivation
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Requirements (from our own experience and from
conference papers), according to the usability criteria:
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Productive (or effective,
efficient, complex)
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Reliable (especially with
errors and inconsistencies)
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Adjustable
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Understandable
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Attractive
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Current solutions
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Problems with current solutions
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Position of Transform
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Position of Clarity: Capri, Lexbench, Author.