Balancing the Existing and the New in the Context of Annotating Non-Canonical Language
Ann Bies · 2015
The importance of balancing linguistic considerations, annotation practicalities, and end user needs in developing language annotation guidelines is discussed.Maintaining a clear view of the various goals and fostering collaboration and feedback across levels of annotation and between corpus creators and corpus users is helpful in determining this balance.Annotating non-canonical language brings additional challenges that serve to highlight the necessity of keeping these goals in mind when creating corpora.