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| Title | A Tool for Feature-Structure Stand-Off-Annotation on Transcriptions of Spoken Discourse |
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| Authors | Kai Wörner |
| Abstract | Annotation Science, a discipline dedicated to developing and maturingmethodology for the annotation of language resources, is playing a prominentrole in the fields of computational and corpus linguistics. While progress inthe search for the right annotation model and format is undeniable, theseresults only sparsely become manifest in actual solutions (i.e. software tools)that could be used by researchers wishing to annotate their resources rightaway, even less so for resources of spoken language transcriptions. The paper presents a solution consisting of a data model and an annotation toolthat tries to fill this gap between „annotation science“ and the practiceof transcribing spoken language in the area of discourse analysis andpragmatics, where the lack of ready-to-use annotation solutions is especiallyremarkable. The chosen model combines feature structures in standoff-annotation and a datamodel based on annotation graphs, combining their advantages. It is ideallyfitted for the transcription of spoken language by centering on the temporalrelations of the speaker’s utterances and is implemented in reliable toolsthat support an iterative workflow. The standoff annotation allows for morecomplex annotations and relies on an established and well documented model. |
| Language | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
| Topics | Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Part of speech tagging, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
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A Tool for Feature-Structure Stand-Off-Annotation on Transcriptions of Spoken Discourse |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{WRNER10.69, author = {Kai Wörner}, title = {A Tool for Feature-Structure Stand-Off-Annotation on Transcriptions of Spoken Discourse}, 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} } |