Publication Details

Annotation uncertainty in the context of grammatical change

authored by
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.

External Organisation(s)
Universität Zürich (UZH)
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Paderborn University
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Type
Article
Journal
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Volume
28
Pages
430-459
No. of pages
30
ISSN
1384-6655
Publication date
19.07.2023
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20113.mer (Access: Open)