- Access to Perseids for treebanking is currently through custom pilot links to create a template or edit an existing annotation.
- Follow a link on the pilot page, and Login to Perseids and/or Create an account
- Upon login, you will be at the Edit display for the treebank file, with the first 50 sentences listed.
- Use the Next/Previous links at the top right of the list to navigate the sentence.
- Click on a sentence to edit it in Alpheios
- Use the Alpheios Editor as normal. Clicking on the Save icon from Alpheios will update the file in Perseids.
- From Alpheios, click on Sentence List to return to the Perseids display.
- To edit the XML for a treebank file, click on the Overview tab from the sentence list display.
- Click Edit Treebank XML
- Make your desired changes to the XML file, enter a comment for the change, and click Save
- The treebank XML is validated upon save. An error will be displayed if it doesn’t validate and the change won’t be saved.
- Sentences will be renumbered to their positional document order upon save.
- Words will be renumbered to their positional sentence order upon save. If words are renumbered, the head attribute values are zeroed out and a warning will be displayed after save. You will need to redraw the tree for these sentences. (Future versions of the interface may attempt to redraw the tree automatically if possible).
- To submit a change for review, from the Overview screen, enter a comment, select the appropriate review board from the drop-down list and click Submit.