  This paper describes a method for annotation of epidemiological information
in animal disease-related news articles. The annotation guidelines are generic
and aim to embrace all animal or zoonotic infectious diseases, regardless of
the pathogen involved or its way of transmission (e.g. vector-borne, airborne,
by contact). The framework relies on the successive annotation of all the
sentences from a news article. The annotator evaluates the sentences in a
specific epidemiological context, corresponding to the publication of the news
article.
