language: natural human language
Scope
References to specific human languages, sets of human languages, and human language in general is annotated are annotated as language, regardless of specificity. Artificial languages such as programming languages as well as natural but (non-human) animal “languages” are out of scope of language annotation.
Syntactic constraints
Names and nominal mentions (see Span annotation: Name mention annotation and Nominal mention annotation)
Examples
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English
machine translation system into English T1 PLAN 0 26 machine translation system T2 LANGUAGE 32 39 English -
Japanese
Japanese word extraction task T1 LANGUAGE 0 8 Japanese T2 PLAN 0 29 Japanese word extraction task -
Arabic
Arabic Wikipedia T1 LANGUAGE 0 6 Arabic T2 DATA-ITEM 0 16 Arabic Wikipedia -
natural language
expressed in natural language T1 PROCESS 0 9 expressed T2 LANGUAGE 13 29 natural language -
Indian language
interpretation of Indian language T1 PLAN 0 14 interpretation T2 LANGUAGE 18 33 Indian language -
polysynthetic languages
parsing a polysynthetic languages T1 PROCESS 0 7 parsing T2 LANGUAGE 10 33 polysynthetic languages -
language pairs
mapping for all language pairs T1 DATA-ITEM 0 7 mapping T2 LANGUAGE 15 30 language pairs
References
Contrast plan (programming languages, data format specifications, etc.)