Ontologies of Linguistic
Annotation
The Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation (OLiA ontologies) have been developed
- to represent linguistic annotations on the basis of formal conceptual descriptions, rather than as plain strings,
- to link different annotation schemes from different languages and different linguistic disciplines to a common conceptual basis,
- to interpret linguistic annotations with reference to multiple existing repositories of linguistic annotation terminology (incl. GOLD, the Data Category Registry, and the TDS ontologies), and
- to formalise the relations between different annotation schemes.
OLiA represents an integrative framework for the handling of terminologically heterogeneously annotated linguistic resources.
In practical applications, they have been used, e.g.,
- to implement tagset-independent corpus queries and scripts,
- to merge annotations originating from different tools and sources,
- to represent linguistic annotations such that they can be easily integrated in Semantic Web applications, and
- to translate linguistic analyses from one tagset to another.
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