The Browser-Based GLAUx Treebank Infrastructure: Framework, Functionality, and Future

Alek Keersmaekers; Frédéric Pietowski; Toon Van Hal; Mark Depauw

doi:10.2478/cait-2024-0041

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The Browser-Based GLAUx Treebank Infrastructure: Framework, Functionality, and Future

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

Volume 24 (2024): Issue 4 (December 2024)

By: Alek Keersmaekers, Frédéric Pietowski, Toon Van Hal and Mark Depauw

Open Access

|Dec 2024

Abstract

This paper presents the browser-based treebank infrastructure of GLAUx (the Greek Language AUtomated). This linguistic annotation project now has its integrated and user-friendly platform for exploring this data. After discussing the size and types of texts included in the GLAUx corpus, the contribution succinctly surveys the types of linguistic annotation covered by the project (morphology, lemmatization, and syntax). The emphasis of the contribution is on a description of the underlying SQL database structure and the search architecture. Infrastructure-related challenges faced by the GLAUx project are also discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion of future steps for the project, including additional functionality and expansion of the corpus.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2024-0041 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702

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Language: English

Page range: 164 - 174

Submitted on: Nov 11, 2024

Accepted on: Nov 21, 2024

Published on: Dec 18, 2024

Published by: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

Ancient greek,

Manual annotation,

Automatic annotation,

Treebank querying,

Corpus linguistics,

Search infrastructure.

Related subjects:

Computer sciences,

Information technology

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