Task $5$: Creating a corpus

You are serving as a reviewer for a journal of corpus linguistics. The editor has sent you an article in which a

group of researchers describes the data collection procedure for the Comprehensive Klingon Corpus $($CtlC$),$

an attempt to provide the very first linguistically annotated corpus of the Klingon language, a fictional alien

language created by Marc Okrand for the Star Trek universe. Here is the description of the data collection

procedure from the paper:

To establish an initial core of sentences, we manually extracted all the example sentences from published

sources on Klingon, such as Okrand $(1992)$ and Okrand $(1996).$ Then we crawled the contents of the major

web forums for Klingon language enthusiasts for additional example sentences. To create the annotation,

we relied on a crowd$-$sourced approach, asking forum participants for their help in glossing each word in our

collection of Klingon sentences with its meaning in English. Annotation was performed via a wiki which

we set up for this purpose. We did not require participants to create accounts on our wiki, which had the

desired effect on participation.

In the process, the Klingon language community also created many additional sentences in order to discuss

various points of grammar, which we were happy to integrate into our growing corpus. After some weeks,

the volunteers had provided us with full annotations, and the wiki discussion pages were found to already

form a comprehensive annotation standard, which we are publishing together with this resource. In a final

standardization step, the crowdsourced annotations were automatically converted to confirm to the Leipzig

glossing rules in a final step, and the resulting high$-$quality annotations are released together with the raw

data under a CC$-$BY$-$SA license.

As a reviewer, your task is to provide feedback on this procedure in the light of established best practices

and the standard workflow of corpus linguistics.

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