CSniper annotation-by-query for non-canonical constructions in large corpora

  • Authors:
  • Richard Eckart de Castilho;Iryna Gurevych;Sabine Bartsch

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt;Technische Universität Darmstadt;Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Venue:
  • ACL '12 Proceedings of the ACL 2012 System Demonstrations
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present CSniper (Corpus Sniper), a tool that implements (i) a web-based multi-user scenario for identifying and annotating non-canonical grammatical constructions in large corpora based on linguistic queries and (ii) evaluation of annotation quality by measuring inter-rater agreement. This annotation-by-query approach efficiently harnesses expert knowledge to identify instances of linguistic phenomena that are hard to identify by means of existing automatic annotation tools.