Abar-Hitz: An Annotation Tool for the Basque Dependency Treebank

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)

Abstract

This paper presents the process followed to design and build a graphical and language independent tool, Abar-Hitz, for the creation and management of the Basque Dependency Treebank. Abar-Hitz makes the annotation process faster and avoids possible mistakes linguists can make. It is composed of three areas: the corpus area, the tagging area and the tree visualizer area. Three linguists used Abar-Hitz to tag 25.000 word-forms from the Eus3LB corpus, making clear, as the evaluation results show, its utility.