Classification of telicity using cross-linguistic annotation projection

  • This paper addresses the automatic recognition of telicity, an aspectual notion. A telic event includes a natural endpoint (“she walked home”), while an atelic event does not (“she walked around”). Recognizing this difference is a prerequisite for temporal natural language understanding. In English, this classification task is difficult, as telicity is a covert linguistic category. In contrast, in Slavic languages, aspect is part of a verb’s meaning and even available in machine-readable dictionaries. Our contributions are as follows. We successfully leverage additional silver standard training data in the form of projected annotations from parallel English-Czech data as well as context information, improving automatic telicity classification for English significantly compared to previous work. We also create a new data set of English texts manually annotated with telicity.

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Author:Annemarie FriedrichORCiDGND, Damyana Gateva
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1056752
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/105675
ISBN:978-1-945626-83-8OPAC
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, September 9-11, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of publication:Stroudsburg, PA
Editor:Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2017
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2023/07/10
First Page:2559
Last Page:2565
DOI:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d17-1271
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):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)

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