[agtk-devel] tree api for treebanks only?

[Matthias T. <th...@ei...>]

Hello AGTK developers,

I would like to know if the current tree implementation is specially
tailored to Treebanks, or if it is generally usable, e.g. for semantic
trees as well. I would like to use this for an annotation task of
non-overlapping hierarchies of semantic annotations, taking advantage of
the insured data integrity when using the elementary tree operations
described in the Cotton and Bird paper.

My doubts about the genericity of the current implementation arose
because there are hard-coded annotation types as "syn", "pos" and "wrd"
in the kernel functions (e.g. tree_left() in tree_kernel.cc).

Regards.
Matthias