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The
Annotated Text Processor (ATP)
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The prototype model for a grammar envisions
linkages with text collections and dictionaries that
are all based on schemas using the same basic element
types—phonemicform, morpheme, morphemegloss, etc.,
for example—and have the capacity to contain and
exploit cross-references to one another.
The idea is that the researcher can
compose a document for publication not just in web-ready
formats but in camera-ready formats appropriate to the
professional literature. And because writing and research
are tentative, creative exercises that play on one another
iteratively, it is crucial to provide a working environment
that facilitates that interplay to the maximum possible.
ATP makes it possible to deal with
collections of texts, dictionaries, and complex professional
documents in a powerful database and word-processing
environment without having to deal with XML, HTML, or
SGML tags as one works. ATP handles all of that in the
background.
Distinguished members of our own community
of linguists and developers have been imagining and
calling for this kind of working environment for several
years now. ATP will provide such a powerful and integrated
environment in the very near future.
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