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Contents

 
• Contributors
  • Authors
  • Other contributors
  • Editors and assistants
• Introduction
  • Definitions
  • Problems and issues
    • Syntactic annotation of corpora, grammars and parsing
    • The size of the corpus and the method of annotation
    • Horizontal, vertical and other formats
    • Task dependency/reuseability of resources
      • Collaboration with existing projects
    • Syntax/semantics and syntax/discourse boundaries
    • Form/function distinction
  • Text representation and the representation of annotation
  • Existing schemes
• Layers of annotation
  • Bracketing of segments: layer (a)
  • Labelling the category of segments: layer (b)
  • Showing dependency relations: layer (c)
  • Indicating syntactic function labels: layer (d)
  • Marking subclassification of syntactic segments: layer (e)
  • Logical relations of various kinds: layer (f)
  • Information about the rank of a syntactic unit: layer (g)
  • Information about spoken language non-fluency phenomena: layer (h)
  • Conclusion
• Guidelines
  • Obligatory annotations
  • Recommended annotations
    • Sentence (S)
    • Clause (CL)
    • Noun phrase (NP)
    • Verb phrase (VP)
    • Prepositional phrase (PP)
    • Adverb phrase (ADVP)
    • Adjective phrase (ADJP)
    • Coordination
  • Optional annotations
    • Optional syntactic annotation
      • Sentence subcategorisation
      • Syntactic clause subcategorisation
      • Syntactic phrase subcategorisation
      • Grammatical function
    • Semantic annotation
      • Semantic phrase subcategorisation
      • Semantic clause subcategorisation
    • Syntactic/semantic (functional) annotation
      • Clause functional annotation
        • Nominal clause
        • Adverbial clause
        • Comparative clause
        • Relative clause
    • Annotation of deep/logical information
• Issues in practical application
  • Phrase structure vs dependency
  • Underspecification, ambiguity and ambivalence
    • Underspecification
    • Ambiguity
      • System ambiguity
      • Use ambiguity
      • Methods of indicating ambiguities
    • Ambivalence
  • Punctuation
  • Bracketing of single-word constituents
• Documentation and user information
• Bibliography
• Appendix: abbreviations