Cheap Annotation of Complex Information: A Study on the Annotation of Information Status in German TEDx Talks

Carmen Schacht, Tobias Nischk, Oleksandra Yazdanfar, Stefanie Dipper


Abstract
We present an annotation experiment for the annotation of information status in German TEDx Talks with the main goal to reduce annotation costs in terms of time and personnel. We aim for maximizing efficiency while keeping annotation quality constant by testing various different annotation scenarios for an optimal ratio of annotation expenses to resulting quality of the annotations. We choose the RefLex scheme of Riester and Baumann (2017) as a basis for our annotations, refine their annotation guidelines for a more generalizable tagset and conduct the experiment on German Tedx talks, applying different constellations of annotators, curators and correctors to test for an optimal annotation scenario. Our results show that we can achieve equally good and possibly even better results with significantly less effort, by using correctors instead of additional annotators.
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2025.law-1.25
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Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Siyao Peng, Ines Rehbein
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297–307
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Carmen Schacht, Tobias Nischk, Oleksandra Yazdanfar, and Stefanie Dipper. 2025. Cheap Annotation of Complex Information: A Study on the Annotation of Information Status in German TEDx Talks. In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), pages 297–307, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cheap Annotation of Complex Information: A Study on the Annotation of Information Status in German TEDx Talks (Schacht et al., LAW 2025)
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