2. Existing Schemes

Schemes looked at for an evaluation [1] of existing cross-level markup were the following:
 
BAS
BNC
CHI
DAM
KCS
SAB
SAM
TEI
TRA
VER
BFR
Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals 
British National Corpus 
Child Language Data Exchange System 
Dialogue Act Markup in Several Layers 
Kiel Corpus of  Read and Spontaneous Speech 
Synthesis Markup Language 
SAM Standards 
Text Encoding Initiative 
Natural Spoken Dialogue and Interactive Planning 
Verbmobil II Conventions for Spontaneous Speech 
Bonn Focus Research

A number of criteria were used to assess the applicability of individual schemes and it showed that - as most of them were designed for special theoretical frameworks and can only be read by specialized parsers - the adaptability to more general purposes and cross reference between different markup data was very limited.



3 Selected Scheme(s)