Comment Annotation

This is a form of higher-order annotation that allows you to associate comments with almost all other annotation elements

Specification

Annotation Category:
 

Higher-order Annotation

Declaration:

<comment-annotation> *(note: there is no set associated with this annotation type)

Version History:
 

Since v1.3

Element:

<comment>

API Class:

Comment

Required Attributes:
 
Optional Attributes:
 
  • xml:id – The ID of the element; this has to be a unique in the entire document or collection of documents (corpus). All identifiers in FoLiA are of the XML NCName datatype, which roughly means it is a unique string that has to start with a letter (not a number or symbol), may contain numers, but may never contain colons or spaces. FoLiA does not define any naming convention for IDs.
  • processor – This refers to the ID of a processor in the Provenance Data. The processor in turn defines exactly who or what was the annotator of the annotation.
  • annotator – This is an older alternative to the processor attribute, without support for full provenance. The annotator attribute simply refers to the name o ID of the system or human annotator that made the annotation.
  • annotatortype – This is an older alternative to the processor attribute, without support for full provenance. It is used together with annotator and specific the type of the annotator, either manual for human annotators or auto for automated systems.
  • confidence – A floating point value between zero and one; expresses the confidence the annotator places in his annotation.
  • datetime – The date and time when this annotation was recorded, the format is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss (note the literal T in the middle to separate date from time), as per the XSD Datetime data type.
  • n – A number in a sequence, corresponding to a number in the original document, for example chapter numbers, section numbers, list item numbers. This this not have to be an actual number but other sequence identifiers are also possible (think alphanumeric characters or roman numerals).
Accepted Data:

<comment> (Comment Annotation), <desc> (Description Annotation)

Valid Context:

<alt> (Alternative Annotation), <altlayers> (Alternative Annotation), <chunk> (Chunking), <chunking> (Chunking), <comment> (Comment Annotation), <content> (Raw Content), <coreferencechain> (Coreference Annotation), <coreferences> (Coreference Annotation), <coreferencelink> (Coreference Annotation), <correction> (Correction Annotation), <def> (Definition Annotation), <dependencies> (Dependency Annotation), <dependency> (Dependency Annotation), <desc> (Description Annotation), <div> (Division Annotation), <domain> (Domain/topic Annotation), <entities> (Entity Annotation), <entity> (Entity Annotation), <entry> (Entry Annotation), <errordetection> (Error Detection Annotation (DEPRECATED)), <event> (Event Annotation), <ex> (Example Annotation), <figure> (Figure Annotation), <gap> (Gap Annotation), <head> (Head Annotation), <hiddenw> (Hidden Token Annotation), <t-hbr> (Hyphenation), <lang> (Language Annotation), <lemma> (Lemmatisation), <br> (Linebreak), <list> (List Annotation), <metric> (Metric Annotation), <morpheme> (Morphological Annotation), <morphology> (Morphological Annotation), <note> (Note Annotation), <observation> (Observation Annotation), <observations> (Observation Annotation), <p> (Paragraph Annotation), <part> (Part Annotation), <ph> (Phonetic Annotation/Content), <phoneme> (Phonological Annotation), <phonology> (Phonological Annotation), <pos> (Part-of-Speech Annotation), <predicate> (Predicate Annotation), <quote> (Quote Annotation), <ref> (Reference Annotation), <relation> (Relation Annotation), <semrole> (Semantic Role Annotation), <semroles> (Semantic Role Annotation), <sense> (Sense Annotation), <s> (Sentence Annotation), <sentiment> (Sentiment Annotation), <sentiments> (Sentiment Annotation), <spanrelation> (Span Relation Annotation), <spanrelations> (Span Relation Annotation), <statement> (Statement Annotation), <statements> (Statement Annotation), <str> (String Annotation), <subjectivity> (Subjectivity Annotation (DEPRECATED)), <su> (Syntactic Annotation), <syntax> (Syntactic Annotation), <table> (Table Annotation), <term> (Term Annotation), <t> (Text Annotation), <t-correction> (Correction Annotation), <t-error> (Error Detection Annotation (DEPRECATED)), <t-gap> (Gap Annotation), <t-str> (String Annotation), <t-style> (Style Annotation), <timesegment> (Time Segmentation), <timing> (Time Segmentation), <utt> (Utterance Annotation), <whitespace> (Whitespace), <w> (Token Annotation)

Explanation

Comments is a simple higher-order annotation element that may be used with any annotation. It holds text that comments the annotation. Multiple comments are allowed per annotation.

An alternative to these FoLiA-specific comments, which are considered actual annotations, is standard XML comments. Standard XML comments, however, are not considered actual annotations and most likely won’t be interpreted by any tools.

Example

Consider the following example in the context of Sense Annotation.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FoLiA xmlns="http://ilk.uvt.nl/folia" version="2.0" xml:id="example">
  <metadata>
      <annotations>
          <token-annotation set="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LanguageMachines/uctodata/master/setdefinitions/tokconfig-eng.foliaset.ttl">
			 <annotator processor="p1" />
		  </token-annotation>
          <text-annotation>
			 <annotator processor="p1" />
          </text-annotation>
          <sentence-annotation>
			 <annotator processor="p1" />
          </sentence-annotation>
          <paragraph-annotation>
			 <annotator processor="p1" />
          </paragraph-annotation>
          <sense-annotation set="wordnet"> <!-- an ad-hoc set -->
			 <annotator processor="p1" />
		  </sense-annotation>
          <description-annotation>
			 <annotator processor="p1" />
		  </description-annotation>
      </annotations>
      <provenance>
         <processor xml:id="p1" name="proycon" type="manual" />
      </provenance>
  </metadata>
  <text xml:id="example.text">
    <p xml:id="example.p.1">
      <s xml:id="example.p.1.s.2">
         <t>I show an example.</t>
         <w xml:id="example.p.1.s.2.w.1" class="WORD">
            <t>I</t>
         </w>
         <w xml:id="example.p.1.s.2.w.2" class="WORD">
            <t>show</t>
            <sense class="show%2:39:02::">
				<desc>give an exhibition of to an interested audience</desc>
            </sense>
         </w>
         <w xml:id="example.p.1.s.2.w.3" class="WORD">
            <t>an</t>
         </w>
         <w xml:id="example.p.1.s.2.w.4" class="WORD" space="no">
            <t>example</t>
            <sense class="example%1:09:00::">
                <desc>an item of information that is typical of a class or group)</desc>
            </sense>
         </w>
         <w xml:id="example.p.1.s.2.w.5" class="PUNCTUATION">
            <t>.</t>
         </w>
      </s>
    </p>
  </text>
</FoLiA>