Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

2044.3.8. Annotation of contextsOnce the actantial structure of a given term is defined by means of frame-evoking labels,contexts were annotated so as to describe the linguistic behaviour of the terms. Theannotation followed the four-layer annotation model of DiCoInfo (L‘Homme 2008) but, asin the data encoding model, some adaptations had to be made. The first one concerned thesubstitution of the labels Participant, Actant and Circumstant for FE, core and non-core,respectively, to annotate FEs. Also, FEs corresponding to complex terms were sometimestreated differently due to specificities of the terminology of the domain. We describe theseand other minor modifications throughout this section.The annotation model contains the following layers of information: 1) target term;2) core and non-core FEs; 3) syntactic functions and syntactic groups of FEs; and 4)linguistic occurrences of FEs.Target termsIn each context a single instance of the term was annotated, even if two occurrences of theterm were in the same context. The target term was placed between the tags: infringe.If the term was inflected, the lemma was entered as the value ofthe attribute lemma: infringes. If the term wasaccompanied by an auxiliary verb, this one was entered in a new tag, but in this case it wasregistered as an auxiliary attribute value: had beeninfringed. In contrast with DiCoInfo, compoundauxiliary verbs, such as had been as in had been infringed, were entered in only one newtag instead of two tags.annotated:If the term was in the main clause, all FEs including subordinate clauses were