STRUCTURAL MARKUP OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS IN DIACHRONIC LINGUISTIC CORPUS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
The research relevance is determined by the need to annotate official documents of Don CossackHost written in the middle of the 18th century and kept in “Mikhailovsky Stanitsa Ataman” archive fund of the StateArchive of the Volgograd Region (SAVR, fund 332, inventory 1), so as to compile a linguistic corpus. The authorscharacterize the problems of the deposited documentary text structural division. These difficulties occur due to thespecifics of the form, the dynamics of genres and the syntactical peculiarities of business communication in themiddle of the 18th century. It is revealed that the complexity of documentary text division depends on the degree ofits narrativity. The choice of a structural-semantic segment that coincides with a sentence or several closelyconnected sentences as a layout unit is motivated. A complex method of document segmentation for the structuralmarkup is justified. The approach is based on genre parameterization of documents and their syntactic segmentation.It has been established that the segment boundaries can be indicated by the complex of graphic symbols, speechformulas that perform the function of details of payments, lexical and grammatical means. As a result of the study,it has been shown that the succession of procedures implemented for text segmentation, and targeted at genre andspeech organization of the document identification, makes it possible to present in the diachronic corpus theinformation, which is necessary and sufficient for the user to conclude about the properties of the document textand its units.