Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Corpora

Welcome to the homepage of the Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Corpora (IAMTC) project. This is collaborative research project among six sites: New Mexico State University, The Mitre Corporation, University of Maryland College Park, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.

When complete, all this material to be moved to IAMTC website. Please add/edit as needed!

• Project overview for website
  • Introduction and overview (from http://aitc.aitcnet.org/nsf/iamtc/) DONE
  • Interlingua (from http://aitc.aitcnet.org/nsf/iamtc/interlingua.html) DONE
  • Workplan (from http://aitc.aitcnet.org/nsf/iamtc/interlingua.html Approach, corpus, and methodology) DONE
  • TBD Work performed (cull from NSF report being written)
  • TBD Review of results (cull from NSF report being written)

• Annotation materials TBD
  • Annotated texts (Rebecca to collect and standardize) DONE
  • IL0 and IL1: Manuals in all languages (Owen to collect and standardize)
  • IL0 Dependency parser: Connexor (www.umiacs.umd.edu/~habash/conexor-parse.pl)
  • IL0 Tree editing annotation tool: TrEd (http://quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/pdt/Tools/Tree_Editors/Tred/index.html) and examples (http://quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/pdt/Corpora/PDT_1.0/Doc/fs.html) and useful TrEd info (http://quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/pdt/Tools/Tree_Editors/Graph/index.html)
  • IL1 IAMTC annotation tool: Tiamat (http://rachmaninov.isi.edu/IL/Tiamat.tar.gz)

• Publications TBD/to be checked
  • all papers (HLT, LREC1, LREC2, AMTA, Journal NLE) (to be copied to website and linked)
  • ****** Interim Report NSF report 1: intermediate DONE
  • ****** Final Report NSF report 2: final (Steve to finalize; then to be copied to website and linked)
    • Final Report Categories
    • Final Report Help
  • AMTA workshop report (Nizar to complete, then to be copied to website and linked)
  • presentations from all talks and panels (?? to collect, copy to website and link)

• People (contact info, photos, etc.) (from http://aitc.aitcnet.org/nsf/iamtc/people.html) DONE

Please date any new entries!

• AMTA'04 IL WORKSHOP (added 8/28/04)

• Weekly teleconference each Friday at 1pm.

• Paper and Proposal Submissions

Please date any new entries!

• Homework for June 18 2004

• Homework for June 4 2004 -- note: same homework for June 11!

• Homework for May 21 2004 -- put IL1s for two sentences and shared IL2 here!

• Schedule of Annotations

• Interleaving Instructions

• Code for Annotation Combination (March 11 2004 NYH)

• IAMTC-EVAL V.0

• Annotator Patterns

• Omega Requests

The current Annotation Manual for IL0 (all languages), IL1, and IL2 is here. Note: The English IL0 manual has been UPDATED/CHECKED/REVISED JULY 20 2004.

Here are spaces for discussions:

• IL0: Issues related to IL0

• IL1: Issues on IL0 and IL1 <-- shared note pad about experience with IL0 and IL1 in Jan and Feb -- CONTRIBUTE

• IL2: Thoughts for IL2 <-- shared note pad -- CONTRIBUTE

• Meetings - Planned meetings
• Slides - Slides for presentations
• Resources - Software and data
• People - IAMTC people pages
• IAMTC-Annotator Wiki
• External Project Site
• RelatedWork - Related Work anywhere

• Content Committee
• Tools Committee
• Procedure Committee
• Corpus and Data Committee
• Evaluation Committee
• Bureaucracy

• REFLEX proposal preparation area
• Old Homeworks