Annotating archaeological texts: an example of domain-specific annotation in the humanities

Authors:
Francesca Bonin;Fabio Cavulli;Aronne Noriller;Massimo Poesio;Egon W. Stemle
Affiliations:
SCSS and CLCS, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;University of Trento, Italy;University of Trento, Italy;University of Essex, UK and University of Trento, Italy;EURAC, Italy
Venue:
LAW VI '12 Proceedings of the Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Developing content extraction methods for Humanities domains raises a number of challenges, from the abundance of non-standard entity types to their complexity to the scarcity of data. Close collaboration with Humanities scholars is essential to address these challenges. We discuss an annotation schema for Archaeological texts developed in collaboration with domain experts. Its development required a number of iterations to make sure all the most important entity types were included, as well as addressing challenges including a domain-specific handling of temporal expressions, and the existence of many systematic types of ambiguity.