Appendix 1: Glossary
Damien Nouvel, Maud Ehrmann, Sophie Rosset · 2016
Annotation: The process of marking a text element using a label to express information relating to the element.In the case of named entities, annotation is carried out using semantic categories.Automaton: Machine operating according to a fully deterministic (and thus automatic) principle.In the case of a Turing machine, this consists of a strip of tape, a set of states and a transition table through which it can access successive configurations in a non-random way.Case: Mechanism in a writing system allowing differentiation between upper and lower case forms of alphabetic characters (letters).Category: A class used to group objects possessing shared characteristics.In linguistics, grammatical or semantic criteria may be used for categorization.In the specific case of named entities, a category is a semantic class used to group and qualify entities of a similar nature.A set of categories is known as a typology.Corpus: A set of documents where the text is enriched by marking named entities with respect to a given typology, constituting an annotated corpus.These corpora are used in system development (training and evaluation corpora) and in evaluation (test corpora).