Text Encoding Initiative

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Text Encoding Initiative

   <text, project, standard> (TEI) A project working to establish
   a standard for interchanging {electronic text} for scholarly
   research.  The TEI has adopted {SGML} and implemented the TEI
   standard as an SGML {Document Type Definition}.

   The TEI was incorporated as a not-for-profit consortium in
   December 2000, with host sites in Bergen, Oxford, Virginia,
   and Providence RI, USA.

   (http://tei-c.org/).

   See also {Corpus Processing}.

   [Any connection with {Computational Linguistics} or {Natural
   Language Processing}?]

   (2001-03-23)