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  <Title>Referential Annotations</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The purpose of this paper is threefold: (i) it discusses an annotation scheme for referential relations for German that is significantly broader in scope than existing schemes for the same task and language and that also goes beyond the inventory of anaphoric relations included in the pie-in-the-sky sample feature structures1, (ii) it presents a unified, XML-based annotation scheme for combining morphological, syntactic, semantic, and anaphoric information, and (iii) it discusses how this unified annotation scheme relates to other formats currently discussed in the literature, in particular the annotation 1See e.g. nlp.cs.nyu.edu/meyers/pie-in-the-sky/ analysis5.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> graph model of Bird and Liberman (2001) and the pie-in-the-sky scheme for semantic annotation2.</Paragraph>
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