An Integrated Framework for Treebanks and Multilayer Annotations

Treebank formats and associated software tools are proliferating rapidly, with little consideration for interoperability. We survey a wide variety of treebank structures and operations, and show how they can be mapped onto the annotation graph model, and leading to an integrated framework encompassing tree and non-tree annotations alike. This development opens up new possibilities for managing and exploiting multilayer annotations.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Scott Cotton, Steven Bird
• Keywords: Annotation Graph Model, Annotations, CORR 2002, Education, Treebank Formats