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214that break and enterFigure 42. Annotation of NPs containing compositional termsMinister of JusticeFigure 43. Annotation of NPs containing titlesIn some situations, the linguistic realizations of the FEs take the form ofabbreviations whose lemmas are difficult to identify because the judges writing thedecisions deliberately keep anonymous the parties involved in the legal suit. For instance,in the context Os AA não se conformaram e interpuseram recurso de apelação (Eng. TheAAs were not satisfied and filed an appeal) it is not clear whether the lemma of AAcorresponds to the name of the parties or to the terms arguido (Eng. defendant), autor (Eng.defendant) or recorrente (Eng. defendant). In such cases, the linguistic realization of the FEwas annotated without a lemma.When the FE takes the form of a pronoun and its antecedent is in the context, thepronoun and its antecedent were annotated and a reference kept the link between the two.The antecedent was encoded between the tags which contain