ATLAS: A flexible and extensible architecture for linguistic annotation

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dc.creatorBird, Steven
dc.creatorDay, David
dc.creatorGarofolo, John
dc.creatorHenderson, John
dc.creatorLaprun, Christophe
dc.creatorLiberman, Mark
dc.date2000-07-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T23:56:10Z
dc.descriptionWe describe a formal model for annotating linguistic artifacts, from which we derive an application programming interface (API) to a suite of tools for manipulating these annotations. The abstract logical model provides for a range of storage formats and promotes the reuse of tools that interact through this API. We focus first on ``Annotation Graphs,'' a graph model for annotations on linear signals (such as text and speech) indexed by intervals, for which efficient database storage and querying techniques are applicable. We note how a wide range of existing annotated corpora can be mapped to this annotation graph model. This model is then generalized to encompass a wider variety of linguistic ``signals,'' including both naturally occuring phenomena (as recorded in images, video, multi-modal interactions, etc.), as well as the derived resources that are increasingly important to the engineering of natural language processing systems (such as word lists, dictionaries, aligned bilingual corpora, etc.). We conclude with a review of the current efforts towards implementing key pieces of this architecture.
dc.description8 pages, 9 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0007022
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0007022
dc.identifierProceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 1699-1706, Paris: European Language Resources Association, 2000
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/102640
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.subjectE.2; H.2.1; H.3.3; H.3.4; H.3.7; I.2.7
dc.titleATLAS: A flexible and extensible architecture for linguistic annotation
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