Polar Quantification of Actor Noun Phrases for German

Anne Göhring, Manfred Klenner


Abstract
In this paper, we discuss work that strives to measure the degree of negativity - the negative polar load - of noun phrases, especially those denoting actors. Since no gold standard data is available for German for this quantification task, we generated a silver standard and used it to fine-tune a BERT-based intensity regressor. We evaluated the quality of the silver standard empirically and found that our lexicon-based quantification metric showed a strong correlation with human annotators.
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2022.lrec-1.147
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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1376–1380
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Anne Göhring and Manfred Klenner. 2022. Polar Quantification of Actor Noun Phrases for German. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1376–1380, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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