syntactic-movement-annotation.md

Syntactic Movement Annotation

Metadata

• Status: Completed
• Type: Specific
• Work Package: WP3
• Research Coordinators: Alex Luu (Brandeis University)
• Coordinators for CLARIAH: Maarten van Gompel (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
• End-users: Various annotators
• Developers: Maarten van Gompel
• Interest Groups: Text Processing
• Task IDs: T062 (FLAT), T108 (FoLiA)

Description

What is the research about?

A project regarding annotation on Syntactic Movement was conducted at Brandeis Univesity. An annotation environment was needed to facilitate this and the researchers opted for FLAT.

What problem is hindering the research?

• How to represent hidden/implicit words/tokens?
  • FoLiA was augmented to support this
• FLAT was not ready for full syntactic annotation yet; further implementations were needed
  • Tree visualisation needed to be improved
  • FLAT needed support to annotate arbitrary relations

What software and services are involved?

• FLAT - FoLiA Linguistic Annotation Tool
• foliadocserve - Back-end for FLAT
• FoliA - File format
• foliapy - Python library for FoLiA

References

References to related resources and publications and especially links to related use-cases:

• FLAT issue #138: Add syntactic movement support