Summary of the paper
| Title | A Recursive Annotation Scheme for Referential Information Status |
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| Authors | Arndt Riester, David Lorenz and Nina Seemann |
| Abstract | We provide a robust and detailed annotation scheme for information status,which is easy to use, follows a semantic rather than cognitive motivation, andachieves reasonable inter-annotator scores. Our annotation scheme is based ontwo main assumptions: firstly, that information status strongly depends on(in)definiteness, and secondly, that it ought to be understood as a property ofreferents rather than words. Therefore, our scheme banks on overt(in)definiteness marking and provides different categories for each class.Definites are grouped according to the information source by which the referentis identified. A special aspect of the scheme is that non-anaphoricexpressions (e.g.\ names) are classified as to whether their referents arelikely to be known or unknown to an expected audience. The annotation schemeprovides a solution for annotating complex nominal expressions which mayrecursively contain embedded expressions. In annotating a corpus of Germanradio news bulletins, a kappa score of .66 for the full scheme was achieved, acore scheme of six top-level categories yields kappa = .78. |
| Language | Discourse annotation, representation and processing |
| Topics | Anaphora, Coreference, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing |
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A Recursive Annotation Scheme for Referential Information Status |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{RIESTER10.764, author = {Arndt Riester, David Lorenz and Nina Seemann}, title = {A Recursive Annotation Scheme for Referential Information Status}, 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} } |