Bug#534489: RFP: libalinga -- a multistream codec for aligned liguistic annotations

[ter <et@ihear.com>]

Hi,

I am the author of this and related libraries (see description below). I
had wanted to debianize them, but will not be able to devote enough time
in the foreseeable future. I bring this to your attention as it would
belong in debian-science/linguistics.

Regards,
Elaine

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> * Package name    : libalinga
>   Version         : 1.0.0
>   Upstream Author : Elaine Tsiang <et@ihear.com>
> * URL             : http://www.ihear.com/FreeCLAS/wiki/Libalinga
> * License         : GPLv3
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : a multistream codec for aligned liguistic annotations
> 
> The multi-stream format, ALingA, is based on Ogg. Its linguistic
> annotation format (LingA) is a realization of the Annotation Graph Model
> (Bird & Liberman 2001. A formal framework for linguistic annotation.
> Speech Communication 33, 23-60. http://www.arXiv.org/abs/cs/0010033.)
> Each ALingA stream holds at least one stream of LingA. It may also
> interleave the signal streams against which the LingA streams are
> aligned, or it may reference such streams.
> 
> libalinga depends on libogg++, and suggests libneuro; neither is in
> debian. libogg++ is an implementation of Ogg that is thread-safe in a
> threading model in which each codec or transport runs its own thread.
> libalinga is similarly thread safe. libneuro is a PCM codec designed for
> signal streams in an ALingA stream. Author will work with packager on
> all three libraries.