Working Group 1: Corpus Annotation

Leader: Bruno Guillaume (France)

Vice-leader: Kaja Dobrovoljc (Slovenia)

Workplan

Annotated corpora constitute the Action's major operational tools for NLP-applied universality. Therefore, WG1 will be dedicated to the following activities:

Studies and community discussions in language typology and language universals at the level of morphology, syntax and semantics, with special attention paid to idiosyncrasy at all these levels;

Unification and enhancement of cross-lingual annotation guidelines for morpho-syntax and MWEs:

defining the division of labour between morpho-syntactic and semantic annotation,

addressing hard or weakly covered syntactic phenomena (syntactically irregular structures, relative clauses, coordination, pronoun inclusivity, etc.),

covering new MWE categories (nominal, adjectival and functional MWEs),

paving the way for unified annotation guidelines for idiosyncratic constructions;

Coordinate the development and maintenance of centralized software for universality-based corpus construction:

online spaces for community discussion and editing annotation guidelines,

tools for automatic pre-annotation, annotation transfer and manual annotation of corpora,

tools for corpus merging, validation, curation, statistics, conversion and release. The software development itself will be funded at national levels;

Defining file formats for corpora annotated according to the unified guidelines;

Construction of annotated corpora:

adapting the existing corpora to the enhanced guidelines,

creating new annotated corpora following the enhanced guidelines.

Members and organisation

List of current WG1 members

Expression of interest in WG1 tasks [lists per task] - proposals for new tasks are welcome

Task 1.1: Linguistic typology and multilingual corpus annotation

Task 1.2: Extensions and updates to MWE annotation guidelines and UD-PARSEME unification

Task 1.3: Extensions and updates to morphosyntactic annotation guidelines

Task 1.4: Sharing tools, formats, and infrastructure

Upcoming meetings

WG1 Meeting 7, 7th February 2024, co-located with the 2nd General Meeting in Naples on 8-9 Feb 2024

Minutes of past meetings

WG1 Meeting 6 (online) - 17 January 2024: Presentation of the WG1 activities in Naples [minutes]

WG1 Meeting 5 (online) - 20 December 2023: Updates on WG1 tasks and discussion of the activities proposed for Naples [minutes]

WG1 Meeting 4 (online) - 27 November 2023: Updates on WG1 wiki, WG1 task activities and general [minutes]

WG1 Meeting 3 (online) - 25 October 2023: Updates on WG1 tasks activities [minutes]

WG1 Meeting 2 (online) - 13 September 2023: launching WG1 tasks [minutes]

WG1 Meeting 1 (Paris-Saclay University, France) - 16-17 March 2023: brainstorming topics and slides - co-located with UniDive 1st general meeting

Documents

Task 1.1: Linguistic typology and multilingual corpus annotation

Minutes from the task meetings

Task 1.2 on MWE annotation guidelines and UD-PARSEME unification

Minutes from the task meetings

White paper proposition the roadmap for UD/PARSEME unification

Task 1.3: Extensions and updates to morphosyntactic annotation guidelines

Minutes from the task meetings

Training

UniDive webinar for newcomers to Universal Dependencies, PARSEME and/or Grew-match

Channels

WG1 mailing list for general announcements and proposals

WG1 Telegram group for special announcements and discussions

WG1 GitHub repository for collaborative surveys and information sharing