Pragmatic Annotation of Articles Related to Police Brutality

Tess Feyen, Alda Mari, Paul Portner


Abstract
The annotation task we elaborated aims at describing the contextual factors that influence the appearance and interpretation of moral predicates, in newspaper articles on police brutality, in French and in English. The paper provides a brief review of the literature on moral predicates and their relation with context. The paper also describes the elaboration of the corpus and the ontology. Our hypothesis is that the use of moral adjectives and their appearance in context could change depending on the political orientation of the journal. We elaborated an annotation task to investigate the precise contexts discussed in articles on police brutality. The paper concludes by describing the study and the annotation task in details.
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2023.law-1.15
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Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Jakob Prange, Annemarie Friedrich
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LAW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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146–153
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.law-1.15
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.law-1.15
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Tess Feyen, Alda Mari, and Paul Portner. 2023. Pragmatic Annotation of Articles Related to Police Brutality. In Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), pages 146–153, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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