book are markup languages, explored from different points of view, and topics of text- related information modeling. These topics have been core areas of the research Unit ¿Text-technological Information Modeling¿ (www. te- technology. de) funded from 2002 to 2009 by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Positions developed in this book could also bene t from the presentations and discussion at the conference ¿Modelling Linguistic Information Resources¿ at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum fur ¿ interdisziplinare ¿ Forschung, ZiF) at Bielefeld, a center for advanced studies known for its international and interdisciplinary meetings and research. The editors would like to thank the DFG and ZiF for their nancial support, the publisher, the series editors, the reviewers and those people that helped to prepare the manuscript, especially Carolin Kram, Nils Diewald, Jens Stegmann and Peter M. Fischer and last but not least, all of the authors.