Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, an endangered language of the Barents Sea region

The paper describes work-in-progress by the Izhva Komi language documentation project, which records new spoken language data, digitizes available recordings and annotate these multimedia data in order to provide a comprehensive language corpus as a databases for future research on and for this endangered – and under-described – Uralic speech community. While working with a spoken variety and in the framework of documentary linguistics, we apply language technology methods and tools, which have been applied so far only to normalized written languages. Specifically, we describe a script providing interactivity between ELAN, a Graphical User Interface tool for annotating and presenting multimodal corpora, and different morphosyntactic analysis modules implemented as Finite-State Transducers and Constraint Grammar for rule-based morphosyntactic tagging and disambiguation. Our aim is to challenge current manual approaches in the annotation of language documentation corpora.