Motivation Annotation tools are applied to build training and test corpora, which are
essential for the development and evaluation of new natural language processing …

An increasing number of researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Engineering
face the prospect of having to work with entire texts, rather than individual sentences. While …

We are witnessing a paradigm shift in Human Language Technology (HLT) that may well
have an impact on the field comparable to the statistical revolution: acquiring large-scale …

Annotated corpora of the size needed for modern computational linguistics research cannot
be created by small groups of hand annotators. One solution is to exploit collaborative work …

This book presents a unique opportunity for constructing a consistent image of collaborative
manual annotation for Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP has witnessed two major …

The TEI has served for many years as a mature annotation format for corpora of different
types, including linguistically annotated data. Although it is based on the consensus of a …

L'annotation manuelle de corpus est devenue un enjeu fondamental pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues (TAL). En effet, les corpus annotés sont utilisés aussi bien pour …

AlvisAE is a text annotation editor aimed at knowledge acquisition projects. An expressive
annotation data model allows AlvisAE to support various knowledge acquisition tasks like …

This paper reports on the ongoing work of Phrase Detectives, an attempt to create a very
large anaphorically annotated text corpus. Annotated corpora of the size needed for modern …

This article is a position paper about crowdsourced microworking systems and especially
Amazon Mechanical Turk, the use of which has been steadily growing in language …