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Many people in the text linguistics community, in which I include
myself with one of my many hats on, have found that there is great
value in hierarchical analysis which is directly and explicitly
reflected in the annotation technology we use. Hierarchy is only
implicit if you use the "milestone tag" approach you describe.
Of course, in many cases a single hierarchy is neither in principle
appropriate, nor in practice possible, as in the examples you
describe.
A number of different approaches have been developed to address this.
The one I recommend is known as "standoff markup" or "standoff
annotation". You can find descriptions of it in several papers [1], [2]
and it forms the basis for ongoing work within the Text Coding
Initiative and ISO for standardising an XML-based approach to corpus
annotation [3].
ht
[1] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/sgmleu97.html
[2] http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/papers/ide-brew-lrec2000.ps
[3] http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/papers/ACL2003-ws-LAF.pdf
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