The complete annotation process

The standard annotation process includes three steps:

Corpus creation:

Admin extracts one or more files (sub-corpora) to be annotated out of a given corpus.

• Standard means for this task is TIGERSearch which is incorporated into the SALSA tool and supports queries to the corpus. The query results are written to new files (i.e. sub-corpora).
• The sub-corpora are then distributed to the annotators' in directories.

Annotation:

Users find new subcorpora in their in directories and move them to their work directories for annotation. The annotation proceeds one file (sub-corpus) at a time.

• The words/constituents to be annotated are chosen by the User during annotation with the mouse.
• A file-specific list of structures to be annotated (e.g. frames in SALSA)
  • has either been defined by Admin when file was generated or
  • is specified/modified during the annotation process by the User
• After the annotation is finished, the User moves the annotated subcorpus to the out directory.

Adjudication:

Admin collects the annotated sub-corpora from the Users' out directories. These are then adjudicated, i.e. checked for correctness within the tool. Currently, two annotations of the same sub-corpus can be merged into one final version at a time.

More details for these steps can be found in subsequent Sections 5 (corpus creation), 6 (annotation), and 7 (Adjudication).