Standardisation and Interoperation of Morphosyntactic and Syntactic Annotation Tools for Spanish and their Annotations
Antonio Pareja-Lora, Guillermo Cárcamo-Escorza, Alicia Ballesteros-Calvo
Abstract
Linguistic annotation tools and linguistic annotations are scarcely syntactically and/or semantically interoperable. Their low interoperability usually results from the number of factors taken into account in their development and design. These include (i) the type of phenomena annotated (either morphosyntactic, syntactic, semantic, etc.); (ii) how these phenomena are annotated (e.g., the particular guidelines and/or schema used to encode the annotations); and (iii) the languages (Java, C++, etc.) and technologies (as standalone programs, as APIs, as web services, etc.) used to develop them. This low level of interoperability makes it difficult to reuse both the linguistic annotation tools and their annotations in new scenarios, e.g., in natural language processing (NLP) pipelines. In spite of this, developing new linguistic tools from scratch is quite a high time-consuming task that also entails a very high cost. Therefore, cost-effective ways to systematically reuse linguistic tools and annotations must be found urgently. A traditional way to overcome reuse and/or interoperability problems is standardisation. In this paper, we present a web service version of FreeLing that provides standard-compliant morpho-syntactic and syntactic annotations for Spanish, according to several ISO linguistic annotation standards and standard drafts.- Anthology ID:
- L14-1637
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4118–4124
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/826_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Antonio Pareja-Lora, Guillermo Cárcamo-Escorza, and Alicia Ballesteros-Calvo. 2014. Standardisation and Interoperation of Morphosyntactic and Syntactic Annotation Tools for Spanish and their Annotations. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4118–4124, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Standardisation and Interoperation of Morphosyntactic and Syntactic Annotation Tools for Spanish and their Annotations (Pareja-Lora et al., LREC 2014)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/826_Paper.pdf