The Projector: An Interactive Annotation Projection Visualization Tool

Alan Akbik, Roland Vollgraf


Abstract
Previous works proposed annotation projection in parallel corpora to inexpensively generate treebanks or propbanks for new languages. In this approach, linguistic annotation is automatically transferred from a resource-rich source language (SL) to translations in a target language (TL). However, annotation projection may be adversely affected by translational divergences between specific language pairs. For this reason, previous work often required careful qualitative analysis of projectability of specific annotation in order to define strategies to address quality and coverage issues. In this demonstration, we present THE PROJECTOR, an interactive GUI designed to assist researchers in such analysis: it allows users to execute and visually inspect annotation projection in a range of different settings. We give an overview of the GUI, discuss use cases and illustrate how the tool can facilitate discussions with the research community.
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D17-2008
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lucia Specia, Matt Post, Michael Paul
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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43–48
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10.18653/v1/D17-2008
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Alan Akbik and Roland Vollgraf. 2017. The Projector: An Interactive Annotation Projection Visualization Tool. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 43–48, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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