The tagged reference corpora

Italian and German newspaper texts have been morphosyntactically annotated according to the EAGLES Italian (EAGLES, 1996d) and Italian (EAGLES, 1996a) specifications. Table 7 summarises the distribution of texts in the German corpus; the Italian corpus is structured in a very similar way.

 

Economy ca. 17,000 wordforms

Politics ca. 14,000 wordforms

Culture ca. 18,000 wordforms

Sports ca. 9,000 wordforms

Local Events ca. 8,500 wordforms

Total ca. 66,500 wordforms

The texts were prepared as follows:

• The texts were automatically tagged and then manually corrected (For German: automatically pretagged for level (b), fully manually tagged on level(c) -- see below for levels);
• The overlap in the manual work (two or more linguists working on the same text without knowing it) is some 10-20per cent of the textual material;
• The material was cross-checked by extraction of all wordforms tagged the same way and by plausibility checks against morphology systems, as well as by manual checking on closed class items.

The material will be made available in the following forms:

Level (b)

-- STTS tags (DE)

Level (b)

-- ELM-DE attribute/value pair annotation (DE)

Level (c)

-- ELM-DE attribute/value pair annotation (DE)

Level (c)

-- ILC-Pisa tagset (IT)

Level (c)

-- ELM-IT attribute/value pair annotation (IT)

The following is a sample of the German text, in fully-fledged ELM feature structure annotation (cf. level (c) above):

         Mexiko    [ pos=noun & type=prop ]

              :    [ pos=resid & type=punct & punct-t=c-final ]

            Die    [ pos=art ]

              "    [ pos=resid & type=punct & punct-t=non-c-final ]

 Praesidentenmache [ pos=noun & type=com ]

              "    [ pos=resid & type=punct & punct-t=non-c-final ]

              .    [ pos=resid & type=punct & punct-t=c-final ]

   Mexikanische    [ pos=adj & use=attr ]

        Politik    [ pos=noun & type=com ]

            ist    [ pos=verb & type=aux & fin=fin & ( vm-f=ind | vm-f=konj )]

       Almachie    [ pos=noun & type=com ]

            und    [ pos=conj & type=coord ]

      Tradition    [ pos=noun & type=com ]

              .    [ pos=resid & type=punct & punct-t=c-final ]