From Corpus to Codings: Semi-Automating the Acquisition of Linguistic Features

Empirical Methods in Discourse: Interpretation and Generation

Volume

Papers from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium

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This paper describes a tool that facilitates the linguistic coding of corpus material, through the efficient prompting of the user for relevant categories. Linguistic features are organised in terms of an inheritance network to reduce the amount of coding effort. These codings can then be exported in a form readable by statistical packages.