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  <Title>The MATE Annotation Workbench: User Requirements</Title>
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8 Timescale
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Obviously, this is an ambitious project, and the tools for developers will take some time to settle, not least because they require developments to the underlying markup languages. The workbench is scheduled to be released in December 1999. By this time we would expect to provide reasonable support for using the coding schemes which we have implemented. Note that this still leaves coding scheme and tool developers in a better situation than they have been previously, since, given th e willingness to learn XML and XSL, software developers will already be able to use the workbench to implement  new coding schemes, coding tools, and display functions. This process should be faster than starting from scratch, especially with the examples implemented in the workbench.</Paragraph>
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