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| Title | Annotating Attribution Relations: Towards an Italian Discourse Treebank |
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| Authors | Silvia Pareti and Irina Prodanof |
| Abstract | In this paper we describe the development of a schema for the annotation ofattribution relations and present the first findings and some relevant issuesconcerning this phenomenon. Following the D-LTAG approach to discourse, we havedeveloped a lexically anchored description of attribution, considering thisrelation, contrary to the approach in the PDTB, independently from otherdiscourse relations. This approach has allowed us to deal with the phenomenonin a broader perspective than previous studies, reaching therefore a moreaccurate description of it and making it possible to raise some stillunaddressed issues. Following this analysis, we propose an annotation schemaand discuss the first results concerning its applicability. The schema has beenapplied to a pilot portion of the ISST corpus of Italian and represents theinitial phase of a project aiming at the creation of an Italian DiscourseTreebank. We believe this work will raise some awareness concerning thefundamental importance of attribution relations. The identification of thesource has in fact strong implications for the attributed material. Moreover,it will make overt the complexity of a phenomenon for long underestimated. |
| Language | Information Extraction, Information Retrieval |
| Topics | Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Information Extraction, Information Retrieval |
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Annotating Attribution Relations: Towards an Italian Discourse Treebank |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PARETI10.111, author = {Silvia Pareti and Irina Prodanof}, title = {Annotating Attribution Relations: Towards an Italian Discourse Treebank}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |