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Recommendations
The following degrees of standardisation may thus be
recommended at the current stage:
- Representation/encoding:
- Observance of general principles of
transparency, processability, brevity and unambiguity; translatability of
annotation devices into a set of language-generic conventions.
- Identifying categories/subcategories/structures:
- Agreement on common
categories, etc., across different languages, where these can be justified by
linguistic analysis and descriptive tradition; allowance for
variation, subject to three degrees of constraint:
obligatory, recommended
and optional specifications.
- Annotation schemes and their application to texts:
- Agreement merely
on the requirement that annotation schemes should be made available to
end-users and to other annotators, and should be as detailed as
possible.