Linguistic Annotation
This page describes tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations. `Linguistic annotation‘ covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions -- audio, video and/or physiological recordings -- or it may be textual. The added notations may include transcriptions of all sorts (from phonetic features to discourse structures), part-of-speech and sense tagging, syntactic analysis, "named entity" identification, co-reference annotation, and so on. The focus is on tools which have been widely used for constructing annotated linguistic databases, and on the formats commonly adopted by such tools and databases. This page began as a set of links to systems for speech annotation, and the coverage of textual annotation is still inadequate.
This page is no longer being actively maintained.
Related pages: [Open Language Archives Community-http://www.language-archives.org/], [Linguistic Exploration-http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/], [Gesture Annotation-http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/gesture/], [Italian version of this page by Piero Cosi-http://nts.csrf.pd.cnr.it/biblos/annotazione-linguistica.htm], [Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools-http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html]
This page is the home of the [COCOSDA-http://www.atr.co.jp/slt/cocosda/] technical topic domain [Corpus Annotation Tools-http://www.atr.co.jp/slt/cocosda/td_cat.html].
This page has been prepared in conjunction with our research on the logical structure of linguistic annotation, based on [annotation graphs-http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/AG/].
[IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases [Dec 2001]-http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/] KEY: F: a systematically-documented annotation format
T: an available tool for creation, display or search
D: a tool is downloadable
P: there is a citeable paper which documents the format/system
R: other kinds of resource, such as books and associations
C: methods and standards for transcribing content