Towards the Annotation of Named Entities in the National Corpus of Polish

We present the named entity annotation task within the on-going project of the National Corpus of Polish. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt at a large-scale corpus annotation of Polish named entities. We describe the scope and the TEI-inspired hierarchy of named entities admitted for this task, as well as the TEI-conformant multi-level stand-off annotation format. We also discuss some methodological strategies including the annotation of embedded, coordinated and discontinuous names. Our annotation platform consists of two main tools interconnected by converting facilities. A rule-based natural language processing platform SProUT is used for the automatic pre-annotation of named entities, due to the previously created Polish extraction grammars adapted to the annotation task. A customizable graphical tree editor TrEd, extended to our needs, provides an ergonomic environment for manual correction of annotations. Despite some difficult cases encountered in the earl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Agata Savary, Jakub Waszczuk, Adam Przepiórkowski
• Keywords: Annotation, Annotation Task, Education, Entity Annotation Task, LREC 2010