Tools for Annotation & Corpus Linguistics

Date: 2. Juli 2025
Speaker: Luke Günther, Project S, SFB 1252
Duration: 14:00 - 15:30

Overview

Essential tools and techniques for corpus linguistics and text annotation. Manual and automated approaches to linguistic data analysis.

Learning Objectives

• Tools for corpus creation and management
• Annotation schemes and best practices
• Automated vs. manual annotation approaches
• Practice with linguistic data and annotation tools

Materials

• 📊 Annotation & Corpus Tools - Presentation slides by Job Schepens

Note: This presentation was generated almost completely with Claude Sonnet 4.

• 🤖 Automatic Annotation Tools - Brown bag lunch presentation by Job Schepens and Fahime Same (formerly INF)

Note: This presentation was given during a brown bag lunch session last year.

Tools Covered

• ELAN - Multimedia annotation tool
• WebAnno - Web-based annotation platform
• CATMA - Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis
• AntConc - Corpus analysis toolkit
• R packages - quanteda, tidytext, and others

Additional Resources

• CLARIN-D - Digital research infrastructure for humanities
• ELAN Documentation - Multimedia annotation tool
• WebAnno Project - Collaborative annotation platform
• Corpus Linguistics Resources - General corpus linguistics information
• Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) - Python library for NLP