Annotation graphs and annotation servers offer infrastructure to support the
analysis of human language resources in the form of time-series data such as
text, audio and video. This paper outlines areas of common need among empirical
linguists and computational linguists. After reviewing examples of data and
tools used or under development for each of several areas, it proposes a common
framework for future tool development, data annotation and resource sharing
based upon annotation graphs and servers.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure