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MATE (Laila Dybkjaer)
The multi-partner EC-funded MATE project (Telematics Project LE4-8370) aimed to develop
an SGML-based standard for annotating spoken dialogue corpora, and tools to "make the processes
of knowledge acquisition and extraction more efficient." Deliverable D1.1 surveys a wide variety of
annotation schemes, and includes a useful page of links. MATE implements Thompson
and McKelvie's notion of standoff markup, which is related to
the CES and TEI proposals. The MATE project was the
predecessor of the NITE project.