HaBiT Corpus Annotation

• login to ​Corpus Annotation tool
• documents with notes for annotation of:
  • ​Czech
  • ​Amharic
  • ​​Afaan Oromo
  • ​​Tigrinya
  • ​​Somali
  • ​Norwegian

• ​annotation statistics

We use Universal POS tags according to ​Universal Dependencies v2 speciffication

The work aims to annotate Open class words  and Closed class words that are divided into these eight categories:

Open class words 

• ​adjective (ADJ)
• ​adverb (ADV)
• ​interjection (INTJ)
• ​noun (NOUN)
• ​proper noun (PROPN)
• ​verb (VERB)

Closed class words

• ​adposition (ADP)
• ​auxiliary (AUX)
• ​coordinating conjunction (CCONJ)
• ​determiner (DET)
• ​numeral (NUM)
• ​particle (PART)
• ​pronoun (PRON)
• ​subordinating conjunction (SCONJ)

Starting minimalistic tagger is based on seed word examples for each POS category:

• ​English (example document)
• Ethiopian languages:
  • ​Amharic
  • ​Afaan Oromo
  • ​Tigrinya
  • ​Somali
• ​Czech
• ​Norwegian

Word Sketch questionnaires

• ​Amharic
• ​Norwegian
• ​Oromo
• ​Somali
• ​Swedish
• ​Tigrinya