Annotation upon Annotation: Adding Signalling Information to a Corpus of Discourse Relations

Maite Taboada, Debopam Das


Abstract
We present an annotation effort that involves adding a new layer of annotation to an existing corpus. We are interested in how rhetorical relations are signalled in discourse, and thus begin with a corpus already annotated for rhetorical relations, to which we add signalling information. We show that a very large number of relations carry signals that identify them as such. The detailed, extensive analysis of signals in the corpus will aid research in the automatic parsing of discourse relations.
Anthology ID:
2013.dnd-4.1
Volume:
Dialogue Discourse Volume 4
Month:
August
Year:
2013
Address:
Bielefeld, Germany
Editors:
Raquel Fernández, Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister, Bonnie Webber
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DND
SIG:
SIGDIAL
Publisher:
University of Bielefeld
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Pages:
249–281
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2013.dnd-4.1/
DOI:
10.5087/dad.2013.211
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Maite Taboada and Debopam Das. 2013. Annotation upon Annotation: Adding Signalling Information to a Corpus of Discourse Relations. Dialogue & Discourse, 4:249–281.
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Annotation upon Annotation: Adding Signalling Information to a Corpus of Discourse Relations (Taboada & Das, DND 2013)
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