Text annotation graphs: Annotating complex natural language phenomena

Angus G. Forbes, Kristine Lee, Gus Hahn-Powell, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Mihai Surdeanu

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new web-based software tool for annotating text, Text Annotation Graphs, or TAG. It provides functionality for representing complex relationships between words and word phrases that are not available in other software tools, including the ability to define and visualize relationships between the relationships themselves (semantic hypergraphs). Additionally, we include a visualization mode in which annotation subgraphs, or semantic summaries, are used to show relationships outside of the sequential context of the text itself. These subgraphs can be used to quickly find similar structures within the current document or external annotated documents. TAG was initially developed to support information extraction tasks on a large database of biomedical articles. However, our software is flexible enough to support a wide range of annotation tasks for many domains. Examples are provided that showcase TAG's capabilities on morphological parsing and event extraction tasks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
EditorsHitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Stelios Piperidis, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Koiti Hasida, Helene Mazo, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jan Odijk, Takenobu Tokunaga
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages1047-1052
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546009
StatePublished - 2019
Event11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan
Duration: May 7 2018May 12 2018

Publication series

NameLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Other

Other11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMiyazaki
Period5/7/185/12/18

Keywords

  • Annotation
  • Event extraction
  • Online NLP tools
  • Text visualization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Education
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Language and Linguistics

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