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We live in interesting times

Digital technologies offer opportunities…

.…and challenges

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Making digital resources

Quick recap: what’s markup for?

What’s the point of markup?

XML: what it is and why you should care

XML concepts: a review

For example:

… like this

… or like this

A Markup Language...

Encoding implies making decisions

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(some) Principles of annotation

Types of linguistic annotation

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Low-level segmentation

BNC structure

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Examples

Representation of trees

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Synchronization

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Defining a timeLine

Discontinuity: using pointers

Discontinuity: using “standoff” technique

Translation pairs

Anaphoric reference

Word class categorization

Making analysis explicit

for example...

Hierarchic bundling

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Encoding analyses

Feature structures

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Using a feature structure...

Features: simple values

Features: plus or minus

Alternate values

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Long-term Goal

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Author: Lou Burnard

E-mail: lou.burnard@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Homepage: http://www.tei-c.org.uk/

Further information:
Presented at the Vilém Mathesius Lecture series 20, Prague, March 2005