Practical How-to Guide for setting up Alembic Workbench for ACE Phase2 Tagging
Guide for LDC Annotators

Stage 1: Set up Alembic Workbench for annotation
Follow the instructions HERE.  You only have to do this once, ever.

Stage 2: Set up your current tagging session
1) open an xterm

2) type awb& to start the interface

3) open the file you wish to tag by

pull down FILE menu
select Open Document (Latin-1)
dialog box will open
go to Directory: pulldown menu and select file from
/mnt/unagi/speechd13/ACE/PHASE2/data
click on filename and click Open
4) dialog box will open
 select      *Source file contains SGML
                 *No normalization
 click  Do It
5) 'Tagset Contents' dialog box will open
 click  Load File
6) you should now see a single story displayed in the interface

7) After the file has been loaded, load in the ACE annotation tag
  preferences file:

pull down OPTIONS menu
select Tag Preferences
select Load Tag Preferences
select mention-prefs-for-metonymy
The system will then remove the old tagset and load the ACE tagset.

8) After the mention-prefs have been loaded, load in the
  "PilotEntity.rtd" relations definition for tagging relations:

pull down OPTIONS menu
select Relations
select Select Relation Type to Add
choose PilotEntity.rtd from the file list
This step should open up a new window displaying the relations table for this file.

[NOTE: If you've already done this for your file, pull up the relations table by doing the following:

pull down OPTIONS menu
select Relations
select Edit Existing Relations
Make sure the pilotentity box under OPTIONS -> Relations is selected to see the table.]

9) Now you're ready to annotate the file.

Stage 3: Annotation
coming soon...


strassel@ldc.upenn.edu
7/24/2001