Место издания:University of Patras Press, Patras (Greece)
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Аннотация:One of the most common issues with linguistic databases is that of compatibility. This paper outlines a new approach to linguistic database annotation and a new flexible data and metadata presentation format which can hopefully (in the long run) become a standard for what can be defined as versatile linguistic databases. The keypoints of the proposed approach are as follows: (i) the annotation should be more transparent and easier to edit for a linguist than XML; (ii) the annotation format should be automatically convertible into XML; (iii) the annotation’s structure should be flexible enough to accept new fields and properties on the fly, i.e. at any moment the database is being updated. A variant of such format with an example is presented here.