Beyond semantics: the challenges of annotating pragmatic and discourse phenomena

Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister, Bonnie Webber


Abstract
The goal of this special issue is to show the challenges faced in reliably annotating abstractsemantic and pragmatic information at both the sentence and discourse levels, and how those chal-lenges are being met. Such information is frequently not explicitly or unambiguously marked innatural language. It is usually dependent on contextual information, and annotators often have toreconstruct complex relations and situations from the context.
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2025.dnd-16.1
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Dialogue Discourse Volume 16
Month:
June
Year:
2025
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Editors:
Amir Zeldes, Manfred Stede, Patrick G.T. Healey, and Hendrik Buschmeier
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DND
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SIGDIAL
Publisher:
University of Illinois Chicago
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2025.dnd-16.1/
DOI:
10.5210/dad.2013.200
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Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister, and Bonnie Webber. 2025. Beyond semantics: the challenges of annotating pragmatic and discourse phenomena. Dialogue & Discourse, 16.
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Beyond semantics: the challenges of annotating pragmatic and discourse phenomena (Dipper et al., DND 2025)
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