The Halliday Centre Tagger: An online platform for semi-automatic text annotation and analysis

Billy T.M. Wong, Ian C. Chow, Jonathan J. Webster, Hengbin Yan

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Abstract

This paper reports the latest development of The Halliday Centre Tagger (the Tagger), an online platform provided with semi - automatic features to facilitate text annotation and analysis. The Tagger features a web-based architecture with all functionalities and file storage space provided online, and a theory-neutral design where users can define their own labels for annotating various kinds of linguistic information. The Tagger is currently optimized for text annotation of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), providing by default a pre-defined set of SFG grammatical features, and the function of automatic identification of process types for English verbs. Apart from annotation, the Tagger also offers the features of visualization and summarization to aid text analysis. The visualization feature combines and illustrates multi-dimensional layers of annotation in a unified way of presentation, while the summarization feature categorizes annotated entries according to different SFG systems, i.e., transitivity, theme, logical-semantic relations, etc. Such features help users identify grammatical patterns in an annotated text.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
EditorsNicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Thierry Declerck, Joseph Mariani, Bente Maegaard, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Helene Mazo, Stelios Piperidis, Hrafn Loftsson
Pages1664-1667
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9782951740884
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014 - Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration: 26 May 201431 May 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
Country/TerritoryIceland
CityReykjavik
Period26/05/1431/05/14

Keywords

  • Corpus annotation
  • Systemic functional grammar
  • The halliday centre tagger

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