Rapid Adaptation of NE Resolvers for Humanities Domains using Active Annotation
Asif Ekbal, Francesca Bonin, Sriparna Saha, Egon Stemle, Eduard Barbu, Fabio Cavulli, Christian Girardi, Massimo Poesio · LDV-Forum/Journal for language technology and computational linguistics · 2011
Rapid Adaptation of NE Resolvers for Humanities Domains using Active AnnotationThe entities mentioned in collections of scholarly articles in the Humanities (and in other scholarly domains) belong to different types from those familiar from news corpora, hence new resources need to be annotated to create supervised taggers for tasks such as ne extraction.However, in such domains there is a great need for making the best use possible of the annotators.One technique designed for this purpose is active annotation.We discuss our use of active annotation for annotating corpora of articles about Archaeology in the Portale della Ricerca Umanistica Trentina.JLCL 2011 -Band 26 (2) -39-51 40 JLCL Active Annotation and Humanities NER ne type Details Culture Artefact assemblage characterizing a group of people in a specific time and place SitePlace where the remains of human activity are found (settlements, infrastructures, cimiteries, production site, ...) Artefact Objects created or modified by men (tools, vessels, ornaments, ...) Ecofact Biological and environmental remains different from artefacts but culturally relevant (e.g., Spondylus) Feature Remains of construction or maintenance of an area related with dwelling activities (fire places, post-holes, pits, channels, walls, ...)