discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[KirbyMeister <kirbymeister AT gmail.com>]

On Apr 2, 2005 5:03 PM, Björn Lindström <bkhl AT stp.ling.uu.se> wrote:
> KirbyMeister <kirbymeister AT gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Can the tokenization, segmentation, and linguistic annotation be
> > automated, or does some of that need to be done by human hands?
> 
> It can, but how appropriate that is depends on the purpose of the
> corpus. One common usage for corpora is to train programs that in turn
> do these things with other text. For those usages, the annotation has to
> be accurate, which means it has to be done manually. There are tools
> that greatly simplify this, by letting a human interactively correct
> annotation performed by a computer program.
> 

So I guess there would be no point in writing any final-output system
due to the multiple purposes of a corpus. I'm still trying to wrap my
head around the whole corpus idea - I'm not a linguistics expert, as
you can tell.

An interactive interface would be best for this task and would make
using the corpus marginally easier.

> On the other hand, if the purpose is to examine a particular area of
> language, some degree of error can in some cases be acceptable, and the
> human part of the process be unnecessary.
> 
> In this particular case, I'm mainly hoping to build a corpus of the
> former type (since that would be the point of basing it on CC-licensed
> material), so the annotation can probably not be completely automated.
> 
> > OT: Bjorn, you want a GMail account? I got 30 invites and I'd like to
> > do something better with them then give them off to the Spooler :)
> 
> No, thanks. I'm so happy with Gnus.
> 

Suit yourself.

> --
> Björn Lindström <bkhl AT stp.ling.uu.se>
> Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden
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