Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language
Ying Lin, Cash J. Costello, Boliang Zhang, Di Lu, Heng Ji, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee · 2018
We demonstrate two annotation platforms that allow an English speaker to annotate names for any language without knowing the language.These platforms provided high-quality "silver standard" annotations for low-resource language name taggers (Zhang et al., 2017) that achieved state-of-the-art performance on two surprise languages (Oromo and Tigrinya) at LoreHLT2017 1 and ten languages at TAC-KBP EDL2017 (Ji et al., 2017).We discuss strengths and limitations and compare other methods of creating silver-and goldstandard annotations using native speakers.We will make our tools publicly available for research use.