PDF (Online Text) - EURAC

Writing Standard
Sometimes the same language can be written in different, concurring, isochronic
writing standards. For example, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Riksmål and Høgnorsk are different
contemporaneous conventions that represent Norwegian. Therefore, writing standard
is one of the discriminating features that defines a writing system.
Writing System
The writing system helps to map a document to the adequate NLP resources necessary
to process the document. A writing system in XNLRDF is defined by the n-tuple of
language, locality, script, orthography, standard, time period and reference to another
writing system. In XNLRDF, for each writing system there are also more abstract writing
systems –(e.g., those without constraints in locality) as a fallback to fill in the missing
information with default assumptions.
XNLRDF
XNLRDF stands for ‘Natural Language Resource Description Framework.’ It is an Open
Source Framework for Multilingual Computing, designed to allow applications to find
language resources autonomously, given a text document to be processed and a task
to be achieved. XNLRDF is distributed either in XML-RDF or as database dump.
205