Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation
David R. Mortensen, Ela Gulsen, Taiqi He, Nathaniel Robinson, Jonathan Amith, Lindia Tjuatja, Lori Levin
Abstract
Interlinear glossing provides a vital type of morphosyntactic annotation, both for linguists and language revitalists, and numerous conventions exist for representing it formally and computationally. Some of these formats are human readable; others are machine readable. Some are easy to edit with general-purpose tools. Few represent non-concatentative processes like infixation, reduplication, mutation, truncation, and tonal overwriting in a consistent and formally rigorous way (on par with affixation). We propose an annotation convention—Generalized Glossing Guidelines (GGG) that combines all of these positive properties using an Item-and-Process (IP) framework. We describe the format, demonstrate its linguistic adequacy, and compare it with two other interlinear glossed text annotation schemes.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.sigmorphon-1.7
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Venue:
- SIGMORPHON
- SIG:
- SIGMORPHON
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 58–67
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigmorphon-1.7
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- David R. Mortensen, Ela Gulsen, Taiqi He, Nathaniel Robinson, Jonathan Amith, Lindia Tjuatja, and Lori Levin. 2023. Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation. In Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 58–67, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation (Mortensen et al., SIGMORPHON 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/starsem-semeval-split/2023.sigmorphon-1.7.pdf