Introduction

EUDICO is seen by the Max Planck Institute as the linguistic tool of the future.   It is considered to be a "universal" work bench for linguists dealing with corpora as they are used at the MPI and elsewhere. EUDICO's main purpose is to offer a set of general tools for browsing, viewing, creating, editing, searching and analyzing collections of annotations on digitized video and audio recordings of linguistically interesting phenomena.

Main aims for the development of EUDICO were:

• platform independence
• corpus format independent operation
• usable over the internet from a standard browser
• highly interactive presentation of streaming   media data, also over the internet
• open framework. Easy addition of new tools and new corpora
• automatic distribution of both software tools and corpus data
• distributed operation to support international scientific collaboration

A first version of EUDICO is developed in Java. This version does not support editing yet. On this website both a detailed description and a running demo are made available.