Formalising Multi-layer Corpora in OWL DL - Lexicon Modelling, Querying and Consistency Control

We present a general approach to formally modelling corpora with multi-layered annotation, thereby inducing a lexicon model in a typed logical representation language, OWL DL. This model can be interpreted as a graph structure that offers flexible querying functionality beyond current XML-based query languages and powerful methods for consistency control. We illustrate our approach by applying it to the syntactically and semantically annotated SALSA/TIGER corpus.

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