3 Management, Sustainability, and Interoperability of Linguistic Annotations

In recent years, a noticeable upswing has occurred in linguistic annotation activity, which has expanded to cover a wide variety of linguistic phenomena. At the same time, the number and size of linguistically annotated language resources has increased dramatically, together with a proliferation of annotation tools to support the creation and storage of labeled data, various means for collaborative and distributed annotation efforts, and the introduction of crowdsourcing mechanisms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. All of this has created a need to manage and sustain these resources, as well as to find ways to enable them to be repeatedly reused and merged with other resources.