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title = "{T}alk{T}ag: Fine-Grained Morphosyntactic Error Annotation for Transcribed Speech",
author = {Venturini, Shamira and
Hennh{\"o}fer, Oliver and
Kinkel, Steffen and
Str{\"o}tgen, Jannik},
editor = "Liu, Yang Janet and
Gessler, Luke",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop ({LAW} {XX})",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.law-main.20/",
pages = "309--322",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-404-0",
abstract = "Fine-grained morphosyntactic error annotation is important in clinical and developmental language research, yet it is labour-intensive, expert-dependent, and difficult to scale. We present TalkTag, an LLM-based lightweight tool fine-tuned to automate CHAT-style error annotation in spoken-language transcripts. Developed under conditions of extreme data scarcity using children{'}s narrative data, the system shows the feasibility of linguistic analysis in low-resource settings. Our evaluation demonstrates that TalkTag produces encouragingly precise annotation while effectively identifying instances where linguistic ambiguity makes automated tagging genuinely complex. In summary, with TalkTag, we provide a scalable alternative to manual error annotation and practically viable support for morphosyntactic error annotation."
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%T TalkTag: Fine-Grained Morphosyntactic Error Annotation for Transcribed Speech
%A Venturini, Shamira
%A Hennhöfer, Oliver
%A Kinkel, Steffen
%A Strötgen, Jannik
%Y Liu, Yang Janet
%Y Gessler, Luke
%S Proceedings of the 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
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%X Fine-grained morphosyntactic error annotation is important in clinical and developmental language research, yet it is labour-intensive, expert-dependent, and difficult to scale. We present TalkTag, an LLM-based lightweight tool fine-tuned to automate CHAT-style error annotation in spoken-language transcripts. Developed under conditions of extreme data scarcity using children’s narrative data, the system shows the feasibility of linguistic analysis in low-resource settings. Our evaluation demonstrates that TalkTag produces encouragingly precise annotation while effectively identifying instances where linguistic ambiguity makes automated tagging genuinely complex. In summary, with TalkTag, we provide a scalable alternative to manual error annotation and practically viable support for morphosyntactic error annotation.
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%P 309-322
Markdown (Informal)
[TalkTag: Fine-Grained Morphosyntactic Error Annotation for Transcribed Speech](https://aclanthology.org/2026.law-main.20/) (Venturini et al., LAW 2026)
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