Recommendations

 

Layers of annotation

Turning to the content of syntactic annotations, we need to recognise different layers of information which may or may not be encoded in a particular syntactic annotation scheme:

 
• 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