Annotation uncertainty in the context of grammatical change

verfasst von

Marie Luis Merten, Marcel Wever, Michaela Geierhos, Doris Tophinke, Eyke Hüllermeier

Abstract

This paper elaborates on the notion of uncertainty in the context of annotation in large text corpora, specifically focusing on (but not limited to) historical languages. Such uncertainty might be due to inherent properties of the language, for example, linguistic ambiguity and overlapping categories of linguistic description, but could also be caused by a lack of annotation expertise. By examining annotation uncertainty in more detail, we identify the sources, deepen our understanding of the nature and different types of uncertainty encountered in daily annotation practice, and discuss practical implications of our theoretical findings. This paper can be seen as an attempt to reconcile the perspectives of the main scientific disciplines involved in corpus projects, linguistics and computer science, to develop a unified view and to highlight the potential synergies between these disciplines.

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Zürich (UZH)
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Universität Paderborn
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Band

28

Seiten

430-459

Anzahl der Seiten

30

ISSN

1384-6655

Publikationsdatum

19.07.2023

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sprache und Linguistik, Linguistik und Sprache

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20113.mer (Zugang: Offen)