Information structure in African languages: corpora and tools

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• 作者：Christian Chiarcos (1) chiarcos@uni-potsdam.de
  Ines Fiedler (2) ines.fiedler@rz.hu-berlin.de
  Mira Grubic (1) grubic@uni-potsdam.de
  Katharina Hartmann (2) k.hartmann@rz.hu-berlin.de
  Julia Ritz (1) jritz@uni-potsdam.de
  Anne Schwarz (3) anne.schwarz@jcu.edu.au
  Amir Zeldes (2) amir.zeldes@rz.hu-berlin.de
  Malte Zimmermann (1) mazimmer@uni-potsdam.de
• 关键词：African language resources – ; Pragmatics – ; Corpus search infrastructure
• 刊名：Language Resources and Evaluation
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：September 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：45
• 期：3
• 页码：361-374
• 全文大小：359.1 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Universit盲t Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany2. Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany3. The Cairns Institute / James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Computational Linguistics
  Computer Science, general
  Linguistics
  Languages and Literature
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1574-0218

文摘

In this paper, we describe tools and resources for the study of African languages developed at the Collaborative Research Centre 632 “Information Structure”. These include deeply annotated data collections of 25 sub-Saharan languages that are described together with their annotation scheme, as well as the corpus tool ANNIS, which provides unified access to a broad variety of annotations created with a range of different tools. With the application of ANNIS to several African data collections, we illustrate its suitability for the purpose of language documentation, distributed access, and the creation of data archives.