Yes we can!? Annotating English modal verbs

Josef Ruppenhofer, Ines Rehbein


Abstract
This paper presents an annotation scheme for English modal verbs together with sense-annotated data from the news domain. We describe our annotation scheme and discuss problematic cases for modality annotation based on the inter-annotator agreement during the annotation. Furthermore, we present experiments on automatic sense tagging, showing that our annotations do provide a valuable training resource for NLP systems.
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L12-1458
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1538–1545
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/778_Paper.pdf
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Josef Ruppenhofer and Ines Rehbein. 2012. Yes we can!? Annotating English modal verbs. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1538–1545, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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