A Web-based Tool for the Integrated Annotation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures

Richard Eckart de Castilho, Éva Mújdricza-Maydt, Seid Muhie Yimam, Silvana Hartmann, Iryna Gurevych, Anette Frank, Chris Biemann


Abstract
We introduce the third major release of WebAnno, a generic web-based annotation tool for distributed teams. New features in this release focus on semantic annotation tasks (e.g. semantic role labelling or event annotation) and allow the tight integration of semantic annotations with syntactic annotations. In particular, we introduce the concept of slot features, a novel constraint mechanism that allows modelling the interaction between semantic and syntactic annotations, as well as a new annotation user interface. The new features were developed and used in an annotation project for semantic roles on German texts. The paper briefly introduces this project and reports on experiences performing annotations with the new tool. On a comparative evaluation, our tool reaches significant speedups over WebAnno 2 for a semantic annotation task.
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W16-4011
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Erhard Hinrichs, Marie Hinrichs, Thorsten Trippel
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LT4DH
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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76–84
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Richard Eckart de Castilho, Éva Mújdricza-Maydt, Seid Muhie Yimam, Silvana Hartmann, Iryna Gurevych, Anette Frank, and Chris Biemann. 2016. A Web-based Tool for the Integrated Annotation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH), pages 76–84, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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A Web-based Tool for the Integrated Annotation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures (Eckart de Castilho et al., LT4DH 2016)
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