Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Huzaifa Neralwala, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab


Abstract
Social relations like power and influence are difficult concepts to define, but are easily recognizable when expressed. In this paper, we describe a multi-layer annotation scheme for social power relations that are recognizable from online written interactions. We introduce a typology of four types of power relations between dialog participants: hierarchical power, situational power, influence and control of communication. We also present a corpus of Enron emails comprising of 122 threaded conversations, manually annotated with instances of these power relations between participants. Our annotations also capture attempts at exercise of power or influence and whether those attempts were successful or not. In addition, we also capture utterance level annotations for overt display of power. We describe the annotation definitions using two example email threads from our corpus illustrating each type of power relation. We also present detailed instructions given to the annotators and provide various statistics on annotations in the corpus.
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L12-1597
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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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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806–811
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1006_Paper.pdf
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Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Huzaifa Neralwala, Owen Rambow, and Mona Diab. 2012. Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 806–811, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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