{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240/events","html_url":"https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240","id":120620025,"number":240,"title":"Textual references","user":{"login":"daghaug","id":12894103,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12894103?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug","html_url":"https://github.com/daghaug","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/daghaug/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-12-06T09:04:31Z","updated_at":"2015-12-07T16:19:46Z","closed_at":null,"body":"One of the users of our biblical data (Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Church Slavonic) has asked whether we could add textual references to the CoNLL-U files. This makes particular sense for our data because it is parallel across four languages, and because there are unannotated translations available in lots of languages. We do make the textual references available in other exports of our data, but this particular user's goal is to \"use Universal Dependencies-compatible annotations with a corpus of unannotated translations\", so it would be convenient to have them in CoNLL-U as well.\r\n\r\nI realize that textual references may not be as necessary for other treebanks in UD, but before we go ahead and think about ways to add them, I wanted to ask if there are others who do see this need, and whether this should be encoded in a standard way. \r\n\r\nThe verse division in the bible cuts across sentences, so we need references at the token level, i.e. a comment line before the sentence will not do. Is it a good solution to add them in the MISC column? Say reference=\"LUKE 7.17\"? Could we use inline comments at the end of each line to mark that it is not part of the linguistic data? Other solutions?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/comments/162574216","html_url":"https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240#issuecomment-162574216","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/UniversalDependencies/docs/issues/240","id":162574216,"user":{"login":"gcelano","id":5678472,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5678472?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano","html_url":"https://github.com/gcelano","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gcelano/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-07T16:19:46Z","updated_at":"2015-12-07T16:19:46Z","body":"If in a considerable number of treebanks sentence identifiers are desirable, the idea to introduce a specific column for this information is well worth considering."}}