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Title Ways of Evaluation of the Annotators in Building the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank
Authors Marie Mikulová and Jan Štěpánek
Abstract In this paper, we present several ways to measure and evaluate the annotationand annotators, proposed and used during the building of the Czech part of thePrague Czech-English Dependency Treebank. At first, the basic principles of thetreebank annotation project are introduced (division to three layers:morphological, analytical and tectogrammatical). The main part of the paperdescribes in detail one of the important phases of the annotation process:three ways of evaluation of the annotators - inter-annotator agreement, errorrate and performance. The measuring of the inter-annotator agreement iscomplicated by the fact that the data contain added and deleted nodes, makingthe alignment between annotations non-trivial. The error rate is measured by aset of automatic checking procedures that guard the validity of some invariantsin the data. The performance of the annotators is measured by a booking webapplication. All three measures are later compared and related to each other.
Language LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues
Topics Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Evaluation methodologies, LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues
Full paper Ways of Evaluation of the Annotators in Building the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank
Bibtex @InProceedings{MIKULOV10.388,
  author = {Marie Mikulová and Jan Štěpánek},
  title = {Ways of Evaluation of the Annotators in Building the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)},
  year = {2010},
  month = {may},
  date = {19-21},
  address = {Valletta, Malta},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {2-9517408-6-7},
  language = {english}
 }
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