Abstract
This paper introduces an open source, interoperable generic software tool set catering for the entire workflow of creation, migration, annotation, query and analysis of multi-layer linguistic corpora. It consists of four components: Salt, a graph-based meta model and API for linguistic data, the common data model for the rest of the tool set; Pepper, a conversion tool and platform for linguistic data that can be used to convert many different linguistic formats into each other; Atomic, an extensible, platform-independent multi-layer desktop annotation software for linguistic corpora; ANNIS, a search and visualization architecture for multi-layer linguistic corpora with many different visualizations and a powerful native query language. The set was designed to solve the following issues in a multi-layer corpus workflow: Lossless data transition between tools through a common data model generic enough to allow for a potentially unlimited number of different types of annotation, conversion capabilities for different linguistic formats to cater for the processing of data from different sources and/or with existing annotations, a high level of extensibility to enhance the sustainability of the whole tool set, analysis capabilities encompassing corpus and annotation query alongside multi-faceted visualizations of all annotation layers.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1711
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4492–4499
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_missing_videos/L16-1711/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Stephan Druskat, Volker Gast, Thomas Krause, and Florian Zipser. 2016. corpus-tools.org: An Interoperable Generic Software Tool Set for Multi-layer Linguistic Corpora. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4492–4499, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- corpus-tools.org: An Interoperable Generic Software Tool Set for Multi-layer Linguistic Corpora (Druskat et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_missing_videos/L16-1711.pdf