Information structure in African languages: corpora and tools

Authors:
Christian Chiarcos;Ines Fiedler;Mira Grubic;Andreas Haida;Katharina Hartmann;Julia Ritz;Anne Schwarz;Amir Zeldes;Malte Zimmermann
Affiliations:
Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Venue:
AfLaT '09 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe tools and resources for the study of African languages developed at the Collaborative Research Centre "Information Structure". These include deeply annotated data collections of 25 subsaharan languages that are described together with their annotation scheme, and further, the corpus tool ANNIS that provides a unified access to a broad variety of annotations created with a range of different tools. With the application of ANNIS to several African data collections, we illustrate its suitability for the purpose of language documentation, distributed access and the creation of data archives.