Syntactic Annotation of Slovene CMC: First Steps
Špela Arhar Holdt, Darja Fišer, Tomaž Erjavec, Simon Krek · 2016
This paper presents the first steps towards the syntactic annotation of Slovene CMC, namely the annotation of 200 Slovene tweets with the JOS dependency model. After a presentation of the dataset we present the selected annotation model, the annotation procedure, and results. The focus of the paper is on the decisions regarding the annotation of CMC-specific elements that required special treatment: Twitter-specific features, foreign language elements, ellipsis and fragments, non-standard use of punctuation, and other non-standard language features. The dataset, together with the CMC-adapted annotation guidelines, can be used for further annotation of language data (from Twitter or other CMC genres), and in the second step to train a parser for the selected CMC domain(s). The large-scale corpusbased research of non-standard Slovene syntax, which will be facilitated by the described activities, will help disprove the myths surrounding CMC that are still present in the field of Slovene studies.