Introduction
Within the NLP community, XML is accepted as the standard for data
representation, especially for purposes of interchange and software
interoperability. However, XML and the standards that surround it (XML
schemas, XSL and XSLT, etc.) not only provide a standard representation
format, but, more abstractly, also define a modeling language that has
important ramifications for the ways in which we organize data,
annotations, software architecture, etc. In addition, the Resource
Definition Framework (RDF) and the Semantic Web define an overall
architecture for resources of all kinds whose eventual implications for
natural language processing are less well understood within the NLP
community.
This workshop follows on from the 1st NLP and XML Workshop, which was
held at NLPRS-2001 in Tokyo on 30 November 2001. The Tokyo workshop
drew a large number of participants, demonstrating the interest in XML
within the NLP community. We hope to establish an on-going series of
NLPXML workshops, in order to enable communication and cooperative
development of XML practices and standards for language resource
creation and use, application development, etc.
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