A Tool for Feature-Structure Stand-Off-Annotation on Transcriptions of Spoken Discourse

This paper presents an annotation tool and format for the stand-off annotation of transcriptions of spoken discourse like they are produced in a conversion analysis or pragmatic framework. It was developed at the Collaborative Research Centre on Multilingualism in Hamburg, where many suchlike corpora from different research projects exist. It transfers findings from the field of the so-called “annotation science ” into a practical application for researchers in these areas