The Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus: A Community Resource for and by the People
Nancy Ide, Collin F. Baker, Christiane Fellbaum, Rebecca J. Passonneau · 2010
The Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus (MASC) project provides data and annotations to serve as the base for a communitywide annotation effort of a subset of the American National Corpus. The MASC infrastructure enables the incorporation of contributed annotations into a single, usable format that can then be analyzed as it is or ported to any of a variety of other formats. MASC includes data from a much wider variety of genres than existing multiply-annotated corpora of English, and the project is committed to a fully open model of distribution, without restriction,