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# The Text Software Initiative

The Text Software Initiative (TSI) is an international effort to promote the development and use of free software for all kinds of text analysis and manipulation, including markup of physical and logical text features, linguistic analysis and annotation, browsing and retrieval, statistical analysis, and other text-related tasks in research in computational linguistics, humanities computing, terminology and lexicography, speech, etc. A central component of TSI is the development of guidelines and standards for text software, in order to ensure compatibility, extendability, and reusability.

TSI borrows from the principles of FSF, by promoting distributed software development on a voluntary basis and protecting the freedom to copy, redistribute, and modify software.

For more information, contact the project coordinators, who are Nancy Ide, `ide@cs.vassar.edu` and Jean Veronis, `veronis@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr`.

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