Interoperability of Annotation Schemes: Using the Pepper Framework to Display AWA Documents in the ANNIS Interface

Talvany Carlotto, Zuhaitz Beloki, Xabier Artola, Aitor Soroa


Abstract
Natural language processing applications are frequently integrated to solve complex linguistic problems, but the lack of interoperability between these tools tends to be one of the main issues found in that process. That is often caused by the different linguistic formats used across the applications, which leads to attempts to both establish standard formats to represent linguistic information and to create conversion tools to facilitate this integration. Pepper is an example of the latter, as a framework that helps the conversion between different linguistic annotation formats. In this paper, we describe the use of Pepper to convert a corpus linguistically annotated by the annotation scheme AWA into the relANNIS format, with the ultimate goal of interacting with AWA documents through the ANNIS interface. The experiment converted 40 megabytes of AWA documents, allowed their use on the ANNIS interface, and involved making architectural decisions during the mapping from AWA into relANNIS using Pepper. The main issues faced during this process were due to technical issues mainly caused by the integration of the different systems and projects, namely AWA, Pepper and ANNIS.
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L16-1639
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4049–4054
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Talvany Carlotto, Zuhaitz Beloki, Xabier Artola, and Aitor Soroa. 2016. Interoperability of Annotation Schemes: Using the Pepper Framework to Display AWA Documents in the ANNIS Interface. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4049–4054, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Interoperability of Annotation Schemes: Using the Pepper Framework to Display AWA Documents in the ANNIS Interface (Carlotto et al., LREC 2016)
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