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title = "Building a Corpus of Indefinite Uses Annotated with Fine-grained Semantic Functions",
author = "Aloni, Maria and
van Cranenburgh, Andreas and
Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel and
Sznajder, Marta",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Do{\u{g}}an, Mehmet U{\u{g}}ur and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/362_Paper.pdf",
pages = "1511--1515",
abstract = "Natural languages possess a wealth of indefinite forms that typically differ in distribution and interpretation. Although formal semanticists have strived to develop precise meaning representations for different indefinite functions, to date there has hardly been any corpus work on the topic. In this paper, we present the results of a small corpus study where English indefinite forms `any' and `some' were labelled with fine-grained semantic functions well-motivated by typological studies. We developed annotation guidelines that could be used by non-expert annotators and calculated inter-annotator agreement amongst several coders. The results show that the annotation task is hard, with agreement scores ranging from 52{\%} to 62{\%} depending on the number of functions considered, but also that each of the independent annotations is in accordance with theoretical predictions regarding the possible distributions of indefinite functions. The resulting annotated corpus is available upon request and can be accessed through a searchable online database.",
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%T Building a Corpus of Indefinite Uses Annotated with Fine-grained Semantic Functions
%A Aloni, Maria
%A van Cranenburgh, Andreas
%A Fernández, Raquel
%A Sznajder, Marta
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Doğan, Mehmet Uğur
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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%D 2012
%8 May
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%C Istanbul, Turkey
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%X Natural languages possess a wealth of indefinite forms that typically differ in distribution and interpretation. Although formal semanticists have strived to develop precise meaning representations for different indefinite functions, to date there has hardly been any corpus work on the topic. In this paper, we present the results of a small corpus study where English indefinite forms ‘any’ and ‘some’ were labelled with fine-grained semantic functions well-motivated by typological studies. We developed annotation guidelines that could be used by non-expert annotators and calculated inter-annotator agreement amongst several coders. The results show that the annotation task is hard, with agreement scores ranging from 52% to 62% depending on the number of functions considered, but also that each of the independent annotations is in accordance with theoretical predictions regarding the possible distributions of indefinite functions. The resulting annotated corpus is available upon request and can be accessed through a searchable online database.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Building a Corpus of Indefinite Uses Annotated with Fine-grained Semantic Functions](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/362_Paper.pdf) (Aloni et al., LREC 2012)
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