LREC 2000 2nd International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation
 

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Title The MATE Workbench Annotation Tool, a Technical Description
Authors Isard Amy (HCRC Language Technology Group, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, amyi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
McKelvie David (HCRC Language Technology Group, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, dmck@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Mengel Andreas (IMS, University of Stuttgart, Azenbergstr.12, D-70174 Stuttgart, mengel@ims.uni-stuttgart.de)
Møller Morten Baun (Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Science Park 10,5230 Odense M,Denmark, baun@mip.sdu.dk)
Keywords Annotation, Corpora, Query Language, Stylesheet, XML
Session Session SP4 - Tools for Evaluation and Processing of Spoken Language Resources
Full Paper 166.ps, 166.pdf
Abstract The MATE workbench is a tool which aims to simplify the tasks of annotating, displaying and querying speech or text corpora. It is designed to help humans create language resources, and to make it easier for different groups to use one another’s data, by providing one tool which can be used with many different annotation schemes. Any annotation scheme which can be converted to XML can be used with the workbench, and display formats optimised for particular annotation tasks are created using a transformation language similar to XSLT. The workbench is written entirely in Java, which means that it is platform-independent.