Linguistic annotation with WebAnnotation

Dear all,

Open Annotation / Web Annotation is a very successful vocabulary for many  
aspects of annotation on the web. However, in several fields it competes  
with other community standards, and here, I am specifically addressing  
language technology and computational philology, where several  
vocabularies are currently being used, and although they address aspects  
of the same problem they are partially interoperable at best. This does  
include Web Annotation, but also the NLP Interchange Format  
(https://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/), Distributed Text Services  
(https://distributed-text-services.github.io/specifications/), the LAPPS  
Interchange Format (https://wiki.lappsgrid.org/interchange/overview.html),  
CoNLL-RDF (https://github.com/acoli-repo/conll-rdf/blob/master/owl), the  
efforts to complement the Text Encoding Initiative with a vocabulary for  
LOD linking (https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1860), vocabularies for  
representing Interlinear Glossed Text, etc.

I am considering to start an initiative to consolidate these vocabularies,  
resp., to facilitate their interoperability and currently look for  
expressions of interest (via private email) to discuss this further. If I  
get more than, say, 5 responses, I would setup a Doodle poll for a joint  
call to discuss how to further pursue this discussion. One possibility to  
get to a structured result would be to work in a W3C Community Group, say,  
Linked Data for Language Technology (LD4LT,  
https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/; unlike OA, this is not strictly tied  
to a particular existing vocabulary) towards a community report.

 From the perspective of Web Annotation in this context, a clear benefit  
would be get a clearer idea about how to model linguistic annotations in  
the first place. WA is largely underspecified with respect to data  
structures for linguistic annotation, and a comparison with other  
vocabularies would help here. I am aware of Verspoor & Livingston (2012),  
and this should definitely contribute to this discussion, but in  
comparison with other vocabularies (say, NIF), this way of modelling is  
relatively verbose and I'm not sure how widely it was subsequently applied.

Best regards,
Christian

Verspoor, K., & Livingston, K. (2012, July). Towards adaptation of  
linguistic annotations to scholarly annotation formalisms on the semantic  
web. In Proceedings of the Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (pp.  
75-84).
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Prof. Dr. Christian Chiarcos
Applied Computational Linguistics
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.
60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Received on Saturday, 18 January 2020 06:16:56 UTC