... platform regardless of their originalinput/output formats.We have adopted for TO the XML Corpus En-coding Standard (XCES) format (Ide et al., 2000)because it was the already existing format ... Therefore, a more expressive for- mat has been adopted for these. The Graph Anno-tation Format (GrAF) (Ide and Suderman, 2007)is a XML representation of a graph that allowsdifferent levels of ... anopen topic.12http://panacea-lr.eu/en/info -for- professionals/documents/3Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1–5,Avignon,...