Along with the inventories and their declarative description (in the
different specification and formalisation documents), operational
guidelines for the practical application of the proposed standard in
concrete classification tasks have been given. This is most clearly
visible in the ELM series (i.e. EAGLES (1996a), EAGLES (1996b),
EAGLES (1996d) and EAGLES (1996c)), where delimitation tables for
part-of-speech classes and for attributes have been given, whenever
manual annotators of text corpora or linguists carrying out a manual
lexical classification job had problems in distinguishing among the
classes proposed by the CLWG
.
An example of such a delimitation table is given in figure 5, below: it serves to distinguish between proper names and common nouns, in German.
| type=com | type=prop | ||
| Description | Example | Description | Example |
| Composita with common noun head | VW-Vorstand/com | Names of companies | der Vorstand von Porsche/prop |
| Names of products where used as concrete nouns | ein Mercedes/com, eine Cola/com | Names of products where used as names | Glenfiddich/prop |
| Proper names derived from common nouns | die Grünen/com | Real proper names | CDU/prop, Susanne/prop, Frau Müller/prop |
| Complex name of state | die Bundesrepublik/com | Names of a specific country | Schweizprop |
| Complex name of state | die Vereinigten Staaten/com von Amerika | Abbreviated name of state | die USA/prop, die BRD/prop |
| Product name | Er fuhr einen Porsche/com | Company name | Er fuhr zu Porsche/prop zur Arbeit |
| Product name | Er aß ein Mars/com | Planet name | Der Mars/prop ging heute morgen neben dem Mond auf |
| Names of party, spelled out | Partei/pos des Demokratischen Sozialismus, die Grünen/com, die Demokraten/com | Name of party, abbreviated | CDU/prop, PDS/prop |