laedit

Laedit is a hypothetical open-source editor designed for editing and annotating linguistic texts. It is described as a modular platform that integrates word-level annotation, corpus management, and collaborative editing workflows. The concept of Laedit emerged to address the needs of linguistic fieldwork and education for a single tool capable of handling multiple annotation schemes and export formats.

Its core components include a document editor with syntax highlighting for multiple languages, an annotation layer supporting part-of-speech tagging, lemmatization, morphological features, and named-entity recognition, and a corpus manager that organizes documents into projects and annotations into layers. Laedit emphasizes real-time collaboration, version control, and an extensible plugin API that allows researchers to add new annotation schemes or import/export filters. Data is stored in a hierarchical format using JSON for in-memory structures and TEI XML or CSV for interchange.

Interoperability is a design consideration for Laedit, aiming to export to TEI XML, JSON, and CSV, and to import from common linguistic data formats. It is intended to integrate with existing lexical databases and corpus repositories through standardized interfaces, facilitating data sharing and reuse across projects.

Usage and reception in this hypothetical scenario would see Laedit adopted by universities, research laboratories, and digital humanities teams to streamline annotation workflows and support language-education activities. It would aim to lower barriers to creating, annotating, and distributing linguistic corpora while supporting reproducible research.

See also: TEI, Open Annotation, collaborative editors, linguistic annotation.