Subcategorizing adverbials in universal conceptual cognitive annotation

  • Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA) is a semantic annotation scheme that organizes texts into coarse predicate-argument structure, offering broad coverage of semantic phenomena. At the same time, there is still need for a finer-grained treatment of many of the categories. The Adverbial category is of special interest, as it covers a wide range of fundamentally different meanings such as negation, causation, aspect, and event quantification. In this paper we introduce a refinement annotation scheme for UCCA’s Adverbial category, showing that UCCA Adverbials can indeed be subcategorized into at least 7 semantic types, and doing so can help clarify and disambiguate the otherwise coarse-grained labels. We provide a preliminary set of annotation guidelines, as well as pilot annotation experiments with high inter-annotator agreement, confirming the validity of the scheme.

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Author:Zhuxin Wang, Jakob PrangeGND, Nathan Schneider
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1178294
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/117829
ISBN:978-1-954085-85-5OPAC
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of The Joint 15th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) and 3rd Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) Workshop, November 11, 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Place of publication:Stroudsburg, PA
Editor:Claire Bonial, Nianwen Xue
Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2025/01/07
First Page:96
Last Page:105
DOI:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.law-1.10
Institutes:Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik / Professur für Sprachverstehen mit der Anwendung Digital Humanities
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Licence (German):License LogoCC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)