Annotating Corpora from Various Sources in the Humanities Domain

Abstract

  Voula Giouli  Annotating corpora from various sources in the humanities domain: shortcomings and issues  In this paper, we present work aimed at the linguistic annotation of Greek corpora that belong to the humanities domain, the focus being on the methodological principles as well as the implementation framework adopted. This framework builds on an existing XML annotation platform that was initially developed in an Information Extraction setting and in order to cope with texts that pertain to domains such as news, administrative, economics, etc.; we elaborate on the initial steps taken towards customization of the tools.