Palmyra: A Configurable Multilingual Platform Independent Tool for Morphology and Syntax Annotation

Summary

Palmyra is a cloud-based configurable and user-friendly platform for morphology and syntax annotation through dependency-tree visualization. It is designed to be highly persistent through cloud storage, and comes shipped with an Arabic dependency parser that generates accurate trees. Palmyra provides default configuration files so that users can annotate using predefined formalisms, and a number of user-friendly features to support annotators.

Palmyra has been designed with morphologically rich languages in mind, and thus has a number of features to support the complexities of these languages, especially for supporting easy change of morphological tokenization through edits, additions, deletions and splits/merges of words. It can also be used to annotate a multitude of linguistic features. Palmyra uses an intuitive drag-and-drop metaphor for editing tree structures. Palmyra can be configured to be used with any dependency representation.

This resource was developed at the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab in New York University Abu Dhabi.

Team

• Muhammed AbuOdeh
• Long Phan
• Ahmed ElShabrawy
• Dima Taji
• Talha Javed
• Nizar Habash

Publications

• Muhammed AbuOdeh, Ahmed ElShabrawy, Long Phan, and Nizar Habash. 2024. PALMYRA 3.0: A User-Friendly Cloud-Based Platform for Morphology and Dependency Syntax Annotation. [PDF] [BIB]
• Talha Javed, Nizar Habash, and Dima Taji. 2018. Palmyra: A Platform Independent Dependency Annotation Tool for Morphologically Rich Languages. In Proceedings of LREC 2018. [PDF] [BIB]
• Dima Taji and Nizar Habash. 2020. Palmyra 2.0: A Configurable Multilingual Platform Independent Tool for Morphology and Syntax Annotation. In Proceedings of Universal Dependencies Workshop (UDW) 2020. [PDF] [BIB]

Demo

You can try out the Palmyra demo (Version 3.0, Release Date 06-MAR-2024) from HERE.

Please cite Javed et al. (2018) and Taji and Habash (2020) if you use Palmyra in your research.