Annotatathon to create digital language resources

TheSouth African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)is a new research infrastructure set up by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) forming part of the new South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (SARIR)

SADiLaR

Join us for a fun two days of annotating texts to build digital language tools!

North-West University

During the event we will all work together to add sense annotation to a text corpus, thereby creating a resource that can grow the quality of natural language processing tools available for our languages.The workshop will start with a very brief introduction to the process of annotation, but focus mostly on the task at hand – adding sense information from the African Wordnet to a corpus of general language text. Participants will work together in language groups to perform the annotation in Microsoft Excel. Learning Outcomes: 1. Participants will gain experience in annotating text corpora according to a set protocol