LGML
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Linguistics Markup Language (LGML) is an XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

-based framework for describing the syntax
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....

 and semantics
Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata....

 of natural language
Natural language
In the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...

s.

Features

  • LGML uses many tag sets to annotate one piece of text for compatibility with different applications.
  • Annotating semantic information about words. For example, using WordNet
    WordNet
    WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets...

     synset number to identify the meaning of a word. Again, this is flexible to allow any type of semantic annotation
    Annotation
    An annotation is a note that is made while reading any form of text. This may be as simple as underlining or highlighting passages.Annotated bibliographies give descriptions about how each source is useful to an author in constructing a paper or argument...

    .
  • Having it XML-based allows it to be embedded with different types of XML-based documents, such as e-books, for easy information retrieval
    Information retrieval
    Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...

    .

External links

  • LGML official website.
  • SaneSense: A question answering
    Question answering
    In information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...

    tool that uses lgml format.
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