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| Title | A Lexicon of French Quotation Verbs for Automatic Quotation Extraction |
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| Authors | Benoît Sagot, Laurence Danlos and Rosa Stern |
| Abstract | Quotation extraction is an important information extraction task, especiallywhen dealing with news wires. Quotations can be found in variousconfigurations. In this paper, we focus on direct quotations introduced by aparenthetical clause, headed by a "quotation verb". Our study is based on alarge French news wire corpus from the Agence France-Presse. We introduce andmotivate an analysis at the discursive level of such quotations, which differsfrom the syntactic analyses generally proposed. We show how we enriched theLefff syntactic lexicon so that it provides an account for quotation verbsheading a quotation parenthetical, especially those extracted from a news wirecorpus. We also sketch how these lexical entries can be extended to thediscursive level in order to model quotations introduced in a parentheticalclause in a complete way. |
| Language | Grammar and Syntax |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Grammar and Syntax |
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A Lexicon of French Quotation Verbs for Automatic Quotation Extraction |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SAGOT10.387, author = {Benoît Sagot, Laurence Danlos and Rosa Stern}, title = {A Lexicon of French Quotation Verbs for Automatic Quotation Extraction}, 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} } |