Running WordFreak:
Fill your username and Wordfreak should fire up if everything is properly
installed. Set font encoding to Western and choose a English font. Set tag
set to Penn Treebank and you are ready to perform Propbank
annotation. (This is important!!! Failure to do so may cause WordFreak to crash
during annotation.)
Annotation:
(1) Add the preprocessed propbank file (extension .pb) using the "ADD" button.
(2) Click the "LOAD" button and a dialog box will appear. Fill in the verb you want to annotate.
For example, if you want to annotated the verb "publish", key in
"publish". The dialog box will disappear and you will see all the
sentences that contain this verb.
(3) Select the appropriate verb and frameset with the drop-down list. At this
point you need to use a web browser to consult the frame files. You can
find the frame files from the English Proposition Bank website:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dgildea/Verbs
(4) Some annotation actions:
a. Select a tree node, choose the argument label from the Chooser. If you
need to add a functional tag, select from the drop down list associated
with that argument label.
b. Chain one argument to another (in the case of traces): Annotate the
first node you normal would. Highlight the second node, hold the control
key (or ALT key when you annotate discontinuous constituents), and click
the argument label of the first node. The pieces of text will be chained
together with *.
c. Click the "-" tab to delete an annotation.
(5) After you finish the annotation of one verb, select
"File->close->closeAll". Then you can move on to the next verb by repeating
Step (2).
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