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| Title | Corpus-based Semantics of Concession: Where do Expectations Come from? |
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| Authors | Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini |
| Abstract | In this paper, we discuss our analysis and resulting new annotations of PennDiscourse Treebank (PDTB) data tagged as Concession.Concession arises whenever one of the two arguments creates an expectation, andthe other ones denies it. In Natural Languages, typical discourse connectivesconveying Concession are 'but', 'although', 'nevertheless', etc. Extendingprevious theoretical accounts, our corpus analysis reveals that concessiveinterpretations are due to different sources of expectation, each giving riseto critical inferences about the relationship of the involved eventualities. Weidentify four different sources of expectation: Causality, Implication,Correlation, and Implicature. The reliability of these categories is supportedby a high inter-annotator agreement score, computed over a sample of onethousand tokens of explicit connectives annotated as Concession in PDTB.Following earlier work of (Hobbs, 1998) and (Davidson, 1967) notion ofreification, we extend the logical account of Concession originally proposed in(Robaldo et al., 2008) to provide refined formal descriptions for the firstthree mentioned sources of expectations in Concessive relations. |
| Language | Semantics |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Semantics |
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Corpus-based Semantics of Concession: Where do Expectations Come from? |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ROBALDO10.140, author = {Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini}, title = {Corpus-based Semantics of Concession: Where do Expectations Come from?}, 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} } |