Specification Of A General Linguistic Annotation Framework And Its Use In A Real Context

In this paper we present AWA, a general architecture for representing the linguistic information produced by diverse linguistic processors. Our aim is to establish a coherent and flexible representation scheme that will be the basis for the exchange of information. We use TEI-P4 conformant feature structures as a representation schema for linguistic analyses. A consistent underlying data model, which captures the structure and relations contained in the information to be manipulated, has been identified and implemented by a set of classes following the object-oriented paradigm. As an example of the usefulness of the model, we will show the usage of the framework in a real context: two corpora have been annotated by means of an application which aim is to exploit and manipulate the data created by the linguistic processors developed so far.