The NITE XML toolkit: Data model and query language

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 313-334

  Carletta, Jean ^a   Evert, Stefan ^b   Heid, Ulrich ^b   Kilgour, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linguistic annotation; Multi modal language corpora; Software tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746060532     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-006-9001-9     Document Type: Article

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