A standardized general framework for encoding and exchange of corpus annotations: The Linguistic Annotation Framework, LAF
Kerstin Eckart · 2012
The Linguistic Annotation Framework, LAF, proposes a generic data model for exchange of linguistic annotations and has recently become an ISO standard (ISO 24612:2012). This paper describes some aspects of LAF, its XML-serialization GrAF and some use-cases related to the framework. While GrAF has already been used as exchange format for corpora with several annotation layers, such as MASC and OANC 1 the generic LAF data model also proved useful as the basis for the design of data structures for a relational database management system.