The Workshop Programme Section I: Theory Chair: Andreas Witt 09.00-09.40 Dan Cristea and Cristina Butnariu: "Hierarchical XML Layers Representation for Heavily Annotated Corpora" 09.40-10.20 Hagen Langer, Harald Lüngen and Petra Saskia Bayerl: "Towards Automatic Annotation of Text Type Structure: Experiments using an XML Annotated Corpus and Automatic Text Classification Methods" 10.20-11.00 Peter Fankhauser and Elke Teich: "Multiple perspectives on text using multiple resources: experiences with XML processing" 11.00-11.30 coffee break Section II: Applications I Chair: Ulrich Heid 11.30-12.10 Stefanie Dipper, Lukas Faulstich, Ulf Leser and Anke Lüdeling: "Challenges in Modelling a Richly Annotated Diachronic Corpus of German" 12.10.-12.50 Emanuele Pianta and Luisa Bentivogli: "Annotating Discontinuous Structures in XML: the Multiword Case" 12.50-14.00 lunch i