[Corpora-List] Is the TEI a waste of time?

[Harold Somers]

> to the verge of ignorance but am prepared to be told that I am being a
> bit old fashioned in my loyalty to the TEI!
>

I don't know if it is out-of-date, but at the recent workshop on
learner corpora at CL2003 (Lancaster), I was on quite late in the
programme, and was the first speaker to mention TEI, a fact
remarked upon positively ("at last", she said) by one member of the
audience. Actually, what I said was that the TEI didn't offer much
help for the task I was describing, so my paper was (partly) about
what should be said within a TEI-like framework.

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Harold Somers
Professor of Language Engineering, UMIST