Linking discourse modes and situation entity types in a cross-linguistic corpus study
- The main contribution of this paper is a cross-linguistic empirical analysis of two interacting levels of linguistic analysis of written text: situation entity (SE) types, the semantic types of situations evoked by clauses of text, and discourse modes (DMs), a characterization of passages at the sub-document level. We adapt an existing annotation scheme for SEs in English to be used for German data, with a detailed discussion of the most important differences. We create the first parallel corpus annotated for SEs, and the first DM-annotated corpus. We find that: (a) the adapted scheme is supported by evidence from a large-scale experimental study; (b) SEs mainly correspond to each other in parallel text, and a large part of the mismatches are systematic; (c) the DM annotation task can be performed intuitively with reasonable agreement; and (d) the annotated DMs show the predicted differences in the distributions of SE types.
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| Author: | Kleio-Isidora Mavridou, Annemarie FriedrichORCiDGND, Melissa Peate Sørensen, Alexis Palmer, Manfred Pinkal |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1056903 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/105690 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-941643-32-7OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, 18 September 2015, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Stroudsburg, PA |
| Editor: | Michael Roth, Annie Louis, Bonnie Webber, Tim Baldwin |
| Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/07/10 |
| First Page: | 12 |
| Last Page: | 21 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-2702 |
| 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): |  Sonstige Open-Access-Lizenz |
