How to Annotate Linguistic Information in FILES and SCAT

We present a suite of applications used for the Italian Treebank which share their linguistic processor and end up finally in higher level annotation tool called “FILES”. The first application “FILES” – Fully Integrated Linguistic Environment for Syntactic and Functional Annotation is a prototype for a fully integrated linguistic environment for syntactic functional annotation of corpora. It takes as input tagged and disambiguated tokenized texts, a file containing the same text split into sentences, and a files containing the morphosyntactic and semantic features associated to each tagged token. Tokens may be aither single words, polywords, abbreviations or punctuation marks. An as yet separated module of “FILES” is the syntactic constituency annotation environment which uses a shallow parser on the same tagged files and produces a fully bracketed output where each sentence is a record. Files contaning bracketed sentences are given as input to Syntactic Constituency Annotation Tool “SCAT” for manual verification.