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author = "Mikulov{\'a}, Marie and
Hajicova, Eva and
M{\'i}rovsk{\'y}, Ji{\v{r}}{\'i} and
Nedoluzhko, Anna and
Nov{\'a}k, Michal and
Synkov{\'a}, Pavl{\'i}na and
{\v{S}}t{\v{e}}p{\'a}nek, Jan and
{\v{S}}t{\v{e}}p{\'a}nkov{\'a}, Barbora and
Haji{\v{c}}, Jan",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
month = jul,
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address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1060/",
pages = "21099--21110",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1",
abstract = "We present semantic-pragmatic specification and annotation (ellipsis, coreference, bridging and discourse relations, information structure, scope of negation) in the multi-layer, genre-diversified, 3+ million-token Prague Dependency Treebank {--} Consolidated 2. 0. While morphology and syntax work almost exclusively on sentence level, the semantic-pragmatic phenomena are often related to two or more neighbouring sentences and possibly to an extra-linguistic context. In the contribution, we describe these phenomena from both the linguistic perspective (form of expression, relation to syntax and morphology) and the cognitive perspective (relation to context, real world knowledge, as well as to the related processes such as thinking or reasoning) {--} classifying the possible relations between the semantic-pragmatic units into cognitively plausible, distinguishable, and human-understandable categories. We have applied our results to the corpus, by annotating it in its entirety. The resulting dataset is publicly and freely available, to serve for verification and further investigation of (not only) these phenomena."
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%T Semantic-pragmatic Annotations in the Prague Dependency Treebank
%A Mikulová, Marie
%A Hajicova, Eva
%A Mírovský, Jiří
%A Nedoluzhko, Anna
%A Novák, Michal
%A Synková, Pavlína
%A Štěpánek, Jan
%A Štěpánková, Barbora
%A Hajič, Jan
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
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%X We present semantic-pragmatic specification and annotation (ellipsis, coreference, bridging and discourse relations, information structure, scope of negation) in the multi-layer, genre-diversified, 3+ million-token Prague Dependency Treebank – Consolidated 2. 0. While morphology and syntax work almost exclusively on sentence level, the semantic-pragmatic phenomena are often related to two or more neighbouring sentences and possibly to an extra-linguistic context. In the contribution, we describe these phenomena from both the linguistic perspective (form of expression, relation to syntax and morphology) and the cognitive perspective (relation to context, real world knowledge, as well as to the related processes such as thinking or reasoning) – classifying the possible relations between the semantic-pragmatic units into cognitively plausible, distinguishable, and human-understandable categories. We have applied our results to the corpus, by annotating it in its entirety. The resulting dataset is publicly and freely available, to serve for verification and further investigation of (not only) these phenomena.
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%P 21099-21110
Markdown (Informal)
[Semantic-pragmatic Annotations in the Prague Dependency Treebank](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1060/) (Mikulová et al., Findings 2026)
ACL
- Marie Mikulová, Eva Hajicova, Jiří Mírovský, Anna Nedoluzhko, Michal Novák, Pavlína Synková, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, and Jan Hajič. 2026. Semantic-pragmatic Annotations in the Prague Dependency Treebank. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 21099–21110, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.