Cross Level Annotation
Andreas Mengel
1. Coding Purpose
This document describes means for the encoding of cross-level annotation.
Cross-level
in this context is meant to denote all kinds of phenomena characterized
by reference to other elements. Thus, all concepts described here do not
necessarily originate from existing theoretical concepts of a given linguistic
theory, but are meant to provide the annotator with theory-independent
tools necessary for the additional annotation of existing corpora represented
in XML.
Cross-level refers to relations that can be established between
any two or more elements. These elements may belong to different types
of elements, e.g., <word> and <phone>, but
may also belong to the same element type e.g., <sentence> and
<sentence>
(e.g., word order phenomena or lexical relations). Thus,
cross-level
annotation refers to any kind of markup that links any two or more
XML elements together.
2. Existing Schemes