Godfred Agyapong
2026
Annotation Tools for Language Documentation: A Survey of Capabilities, Gaps, and Morphological Support
Changbing Yang | Pt Anderson | Godfred Agyapong | Sarah Moeller
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
Changbing Yang | Pt Anderson | Godfred Agyapong | Sarah Moeller
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
Annotation tools are foundational infrastructure for language documentation, yet few comprehensive surveys have evaluated the tool landscape specifically from a documentary linguistics perspective. We survey 98 annotation tools across dimensions critical to language documentation workflows: annotation support, collaboration features, active learning, cost and openness, and institutional sustainability. Of the 44 tools both free and accessible for evaluation, only 15 support morpheme segmentation and glossing, and only 6 combine morphological annotation with remote collaboration at no cost. We identify a structural gap between the current tools and the requirements of field linguists working with endangered and Indigenous languages. While many NLP tools prioritize scalable annotation for high-resource settings, documentary linguists need interlinear glossed text (IGT) support and community-accessible interfaces. We taxonomise the tool landscape, present a multi-dimensional feature matrix, suggest current tools for language documentation, and conclude with concrete recommendations for tool developers and the documentary linguistics community.
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
Godfred Agyapong | Sarah Moeller | Antti Arppe | Ali Marashian | Daisy Rosenblum
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
Godfred Agyapong | Sarah Moeller | Antti Arppe | Ali Marashian | Daisy Rosenblum
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
2025
Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Jordan Lachler | Godfred Agyapong | Antti Arppe | Sarah Moeller | Aditi Chaudhary | Shruti Rijhwani | Daisy Rosenblum
Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Jordan Lachler | Godfred Agyapong | Antti Arppe | Sarah Moeller | Aditi Chaudhary | Shruti Rijhwani | Daisy Rosenblum
Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
2024
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Sarah Moeller | Godfred Agyapong | Antti Arppe | Aditi Chaudhary | Shruti Rijhwani | Christopher Cox | Ryan Henke | Alexis Palmer | Daisy Rosenblum | Lane Schwartz
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Sarah Moeller | Godfred Agyapong | Antti Arppe | Aditi Chaudhary | Shruti Rijhwani | Christopher Cox | Ryan Henke | Alexis Palmer | Daisy Rosenblum | Lane Schwartz
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages