Collaborative Annotation for Reliable Natural Language Processing

Preface

This book presents a unique opportunity for me to construct what I hope to be a consistent image of collaborative manual annotation for Natural Language Processing (NLP). I partly rely on work that has already been published elsewhere, with some of it only in French, most of it in reduced versions and all of it available on my personal website.¹ Whenever possible, the original article should be cited in preference to this book.

Also, I refer to publications in French. I retained these publications because there was no equivalent one in English, hoping that at least some readers will be able to understand them.

This work owes a lot to my interactions with Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN/University of Paris 13) both during and after my PhD thesis. In addition, it would not have been conducted to its end without (a lot of) support and help from Benoît Habert (ICAR/ENS of Lyon).

Finally, I would like to thank all the friends who supported me in writing this book and proofread parts of it, as well as the colleagues who kindly accepted that their figures be part of it.

1 Here: http://karenfort.org/Publications.php.