Semantically Constrained Multilayer Annotation: The Case of Coreference

Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, Omri Abend


Abstract
We propose a coreference annotation scheme as a layer on top of the Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation foundational layer, treating units in predicate-argument structure as a basis for entity and event mentions. We argue that this allows coreference annotators to sidestep some of the challenges faced in other schemes, which do not enforce consistency with predicate-argument structure and vary widely in what kinds of mentions they annotate and how. The proposed approach is examined with a pilot annotation study and compared with annotations from other schemes.
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W19-3319
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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August
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Nianwen Xue, William Croft, Jan Hajic, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephan Oepen, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovksy
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DMR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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164–176
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3319
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3319
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Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, and Omri Abend. 2019. Semantically Constrained Multilayer Annotation: The Case of Coreference. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 164–176, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Semantically Constrained Multilayer Annotation: The Case of Coreference (Prange et al., DMR 2019)
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