Stand-off TEI Annotation: the Case of the National Corpus of Polish

We present the annotation architecture of the National Corpus of Polish and discuss problems identified in the TEI stand-off annotation system, which, in its current version, is still very much unfinished and untested, due to both technical reasons (lack of tools implementing the TEI-defined XPointer schemes) and certain problems concerning data representation. We concentrate on two features that a stand-off system should possess and that are conspicuously missing in the current TEI Guidelines.