A Dependency Structure Annotation for Modality

Meagan Vigus, Jens E. L. Van Gysel, William Croft


Abstract
This paper presents an annotation scheme for modality that employs a dependency structure. Events and sources (here, conceivers) are represented as nodes and epistemic strength relations characterize the edges. The epistemic strength values are largely based on Saurí and Pustejovsky’s (2009) FactBank, while the dependency structure mirrors Zhang and Xue’s (2018b) approach to temporal relations. Six documents containing 377 events have been annotated by two expert annotators with high levels of agreement.
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W19-3321
Volume:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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August
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
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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Pages:
182–198
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-3321
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3321
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Meagan Vigus, Jens E. L. Van Gysel, and William Croft. 2019. A Dependency Structure Annotation for Modality. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 182–198, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Dependency Structure Annotation for Modality (Vigus et al., DMR 2019)
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