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2018

Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language


Abstract

We demonstrate two annotation platforms that allow an English speaker to annotate names for any language without knowing the language. These platforms provided high-quality ’‘silver standard” annotations for low-resource language name taggers (Zhang et al., 2017) that achieved state-of-the-art performance on two surprise languages (Oromo and Tigrinya) at LoreHLT20171 and ten languages at TAC-KBP EDL2017 (Ji et al., 2017). We discuss strengths and limitations and compare other methods of creating silver- and gold-standard annotations using native speakers. We will make our tools publicly available for research use.

Citation

@inproceedingsLin2018PlatformsFN title=Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language author=Ying Lin and Cash Costello and Boliang Zhang and Di Lu and Heng Ji and James Mayfield and Paul McNamee booktitle=ACL year=2018

Citation

@inproceedingsLin2018PlatformsFN title=Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language author=Ying Lin and Cash Costello and Boliang Zhang and Di Lu and Heng Ji and James Mayfield and Paul McNamee booktitle=ACL year=2018