Treebanking user-generated content: a UD based overview of guidelines, corpora and unified recommendations

Buchbeitrag

This article presents a discussion on the main linguistic phenomena which cause difficulties in the analysis of user-generated texts found on the web and in social media, and proposes a set of annotation guidelines for their treatment within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework of syntactic analysis. Given on the one hand the increasing number of treebanks featuring user-generated content, and its somewhat inconsistent treatment in these resources on the other, the aim of this article is twofold: (1) to provide a condensed, though comprehensive, overview of such treebanks—based on available literature—along with their main features and a comparative analysis of their annotation criteria, and (2) to propose a set of tentative UD-based annotation guidelines, to promote consistent treatment of the particular phenomena found in these types of texts. The overarching goal of this article is to provide a common framework for researchers interested in developing similar resources in UD, thus promoting cross-linguistic consistency, which is a principle that has always been central to the spirit of UD.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: World Wide Web ; Annotation ; Angewandte Linguistik ; Social Media ; Datenbanksystem ; Strukturbaum ; Sprache

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sanguinetti, Manuela ; Bosco, Cristina ; Cassidy, Lauren ; Cetinoglu, Özlem ; Cignarella, Alessandra Teresa ; Lynn, Teresa ; Rehbein, Ines ; Ruppenhofer, Josef ; Seddah, Djamé ; Zeldes, Amir
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer ; Mannheim : Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
• (when): 2022-04-05

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-110002
• Last update: 06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET