ANNO: a Multi-functional Flemish Text Corpus

In this paper the ANNO Project ("Een Geannoteerde Publieke Gegevensbank voor het Geschreven Nederlands/An Annotated Database for Written Dutch") is reported on 1 . The project aims at laying the foundations for the compilation and linguistic annotation of a large multi-functional Flemish text corpus. The corpus available now consists of language written to be spoken, together with transcribed interviews. In this paper we present the levels of annotation ANNO comes with at the moment. In general, we will show what can be achieved using taggers, parsers etc. that are currently available for Dutch. A separate issue is whether the tools are as useful for Flemish as they are for Dutch. Introduction The ANNO Project is sponsored by the Flemish Research Initiative in Speech and Language Technology. It is a pilot project, aiming at laying the foundations for the compilation and linguistic annotation of a large, multi-functional, standard Flemish text corpus. Although great efforts have been..