A Database of Attribution Relations

Silvia Pareti


Abstract
The importance of attribution is becoming evident due to its relevance in particular for Opinion Analysis and Information Extraction applications. Attribution would allow to identify different perspectives on a given topic or retrieve the statements of a specific source of interest, but also to select more relevant and reliable information. However, the scarce and partial resources available to date to conduct attribution studies have determined that only a portion of attribution structures has been identified and addressed. This paper presents the collection and further annotation of a database of over 9800 attributions relations from the Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB). The aim is to build a large and complete resource that fills a key gap in the field and enables the training and testing of robust attribution extraction systems.
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L12-1571
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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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3213–3217
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/958_Paper.pdf
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Silvia Pareti. 2012. A Database of Attribution Relations. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3213–3217, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Database of Attribution Relations (Pareti, LREC 2012)
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