Annotation Challenges for Reconstructing the Structural Elaboration of Middle Low German

Nina Seemann, Marie-Luis Merten, Michaela Geierhos, Doris Tophinke, Eyke Hüllermeier

Abstract
In this paper, we present the annotation challenges we have encountered when working on a historical language that was undergoing elaboration processes. We especially focus on syntactic ambiguity and gradience in Middle Low German, which causes uncertainty to some extent. Since current annotation tools consider construction contexts and the dynamics of the grammaticalization only partially, we plan to extend CorA - a web-based annotation tool for historical and other non-standard language data - to capture elaboration phenomena and annotator unsureness. Moreover, we seek to interactively learn morphological as well as syntactic annotations.
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W17-2206
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Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
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LaTeCH
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SIGHUM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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40–45
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-2206
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-2206
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Nina Seemann, Marie-Luis Merten, Michaela Geierhos, Doris Tophinke, and Eyke Hüllermeier. 2017. Annotation Challenges for Reconstructing the Structural Elaboration of Middle Low German. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 40–45, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Annotation Challenges for Reconstructing the Structural Elaboration of Middle Low German (Seemann et al., LaTeCH 2017)
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