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Types of documentation

The activities of the CLWG could just be summarised in scientific papers. This has been done to some extent: cf. McNaught (1993), Calzolari (1994), Calzolari (1995), Calzolari and Zampolli (1994) and Calzolari (forthcoming); also, this work has been presented at a number of international events (workshops, conferences, summer schools, etc. However, given that much of the work of the CLWG deals with relatively large quantities of linguistic data or is intended to cover sizeable fragments, it makes sense to separate out the results of the three phases mentioned above, as far as their documentation goes.

The approach and phasing sketched out above typically produce different kinds of documentation which address different tasks and possibly different target groups. These types of documents are, in the case of the CLWG, the following:

This above list is organised from the more formal types of documents (i.e. linguistic specifications, ready to be modelled in a computational linguistic formalism) to the more informal (narrative, textual) ones. It is important to note that not all the tasks initially identified were carried out -- this was invariably due to judicious management of modest resources and the effects of working with largely voluntary labour. Also, certain tasks have given rise to a lower level of documentation than others, either due to labour and time problems or to a lack of achievable consensus in the current timeframe. Thus, only the main documentation is here presented.



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