Working Session IV

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redrafted outline of wiki Annotation Standards main page
• 1. What is annotation
• 2. What are annotation standards?
• 3. What does it take to be a good annotation standard?
• 4. Four case studies
4.1 IPA
4.2 FrameNet
4.3 Leipzig
4.4 ToBI
let’s not talk about standards that we don’t consider to be exemplary, at the risk that people are interpreting we mean them to be exemplary annotation standards
• 5. Best Practices
• 6. Existing annotation standards
• 7. Needed annotation standards
7.1 Unified annotation standard for sign languages
7.2 Young children’s speech
7.3 Clinical behavioral responses
7.4 Discourse
7.5 constructions
• Bibliography

MB: let’s make the taxonomy 3-part (rather than 2)
• Since we’ve defined annotation as a “conventionalized representation of analysis of language data”, talk about more than one dimension at a time
3rd dimension in addition: paradigmatic relationships - ontological
RW: coarse examination not necessarily a result of uncertainty or error, but goal

6. Existing annotation standards
• SR: thing to consider/ remember--the standards that many may work in are often considered by those individuals as very “standard”
• NXT
SR: M.Lieberman’s recommendation, has advantage of tiers
• collapse GOLD, E-MELD together?
GC: Well, GOLD grew out of E-MELD as
• Sections of existing annotation standards: allow levels of lx to bleed into each other, making it possible to talk about certain standards that deal with different interface directions of one, e.g. FrameNet vs. Leipzig not both under ‘morphosyntax’
• phonetics and phonology
• ToBI
• IPA
• morphosyntax
• Leipzig
• Treebanks
• syntax and semantics
• FrameNet
• discourse structures and pragmatics
• lines/tiers in CHAT
• for phonetic transcription
• for type annotation
• allows searching for type frequency, token frequency...
• MB: lessons and conventions to be taken from CHAT: allows segmenting words and terms, and identifying participant. It’s not all of CHAT that we want to cite as a standard, but the elements of CHAT that allow for conventions of annotation (e.g. turns)
• gesture and sign
• MacNeil’s Gesture annotation
• ELAN
• BTS transription
• other resources
• GOLD
• present these sections as suggested by participants of cyberling

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