ACE Phase 2
Information for LDC Annotators

Please note: This information has been prepared as a resource for LDC annotators only.  To access "official" ACE information and data, please see NIST's ACE2 site here.


Practical Information for Annotators
 
Annotation Guidelines Annotation Tools
EDT ACE Pilot Study Task Definition Version 2.2 Using Alembic for Metonymy Annotation
EDT Task Definition version 2.2 Clarifications  Alembic Workbench User Manual
Nominal Entity Recognition Task Definition V1.0 (referenced by EDT guidelines) Practical How-to Guide for LDC Annotators
Supplement for generics guidelines How to Compare Files
Metonymy Guidelines Version 2.2 (.doc file)  (.pdf file)
Annotator Training Guide (Web Verstion)
RDC Guidelines V3.6 (.doc file)
Local Data Locations  Annotation Files for Download by Annotators
/mnt/unagi/speechd13/ACE/PHASE2/data 11 samples with generic annotation
36 samples with generic annotation
Additional Information for LDC annotators  
working notes  
error messages  
work assignments  


Corpus Information

Contact Mark Przybocki at NIST for details.



Timeline
 
Date Description Amount (words)
June 1 Complete RDC annotation of ACE2 Corpus 225K
June 1 Complete EDT, RDC annotation of EELD training data 30K
August 1 Complete EDT, RDC annotation of new ACE evaluation data 45K
August 1 Complete EDT, RDC annotation of  EELD evaluation data plus new domain data 20K


Further Information
NIST's ACE Phase 2 resource page
NIST Mailing List Archives
ACE Phase 1 Annotation Guide

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Updated: 4.30.2002