Primary Data Encoding of a Bilingual Corpus

This paper discusses the building of a bilingual corpus of legal and administrative texts, focusing on the encoding of documentation and structural information according to the Corpus Encoding Standard. The corpus is one module in an ongoing research project about (semi-)automatic terminology acquisition at the European Academy Bolzano and will serve as a basis for applying term extraction programs. We will discuss the pieces of information to be annotated as well as lessons learned during this process.