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

Abstract

We present a general approach to formally modelling corpora with multi-layered anno-tation, 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 func-tionality beyond current XML-based query languages and powerful methods for consis-tency control. We illustrate our approach by applying it to the syntactically and semanti-cally annotated SALSA/TIGER corpus. 1