Developing Guidelines and Ensuring Consistency for Chinese Text Annotation

With growing interest in Chinese Language Processing, numerous NLP tools (e.g. word segmenters, part-of-speech taggers, and parsers)for Chinese have been developed all over the world. However, since no large-scale bracketed corpora are available to the public, thesetools are trained on the corpora with different segmentation criteria, part-of-speech tagsets and bracketing guidelines, and therefore,comparisons are difficult. As a first step towards addressing this issue, we have been...