On 11.08.2016, at 22:56, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess we've always (probably incorrectly) thought that those use-cases which > wanted unique, fixed identifiers for every feature structure would just add > them > as a feature, with whatever kind of id was wanted...
I didn't want to do that because then the annotation editor would have dictated parts of the type system. The FS addresses serve excellently as out-of-band IDs (i.e. isolated from the type system). We've also started adding ID features to some types (e.g. Token, Sentence), but these represent *externally pre-existing* (in-band) IDs that we obtain e.g. from a corpus file. Cheers, -- Richard
