A Powerful and Versatile XML Format for Representing Role-semantic Annotation

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)

Abstract

We present two XML formats for the description and encoding of semantic role information in corpora. The TIGER/SALSA XML format provides a modular representation for semantic roles and syntactic structure. The Text-SALSA XML format is a lightweight version of TIGER/SALSA XML designed for manual annotation with an XML editor rather than a special tool. Both formats can deal with underspecification, roles crossing the sentence boundary, compound splitting, and whole-sentence tags for meta-level comments.