Semantic Annotation of the ACL Anthology Corpus for the Automatic Analysis of Scientific Literature

Kata Gábor, Haïfa Zargayouna, Davide Buscaldi, Isabelle Tellier, Thierry Charnois


Abstract
This paper describes the process of creating a corpus annotated for concepts and semantic relations in the scientific domain. A part of the ACL Anthology Corpus was selected for annotation, but the annotation process itself is not specific to the computational linguistics domain and could be applied to any scientific corpora. Concepts were identified and annotated fully automatically, based on a combination of terminology extraction and available ontological resources. A typology of semantic relations between concepts is also proposed. This typology, consisting of 18 domain-specific and 3 generic relations, is the result of a corpus-based investigation of the text sequences occurring between concepts in sentences. A sample of 500 abstracts from the corpus is currently being manually annotated with these semantic relations. Only explicit relations are taken into account, so that the data could serve to train or evaluate pattern-based semantic relation classification systems.
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L16-1586
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3694–3701
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1586
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Kata Gábor, Haïfa Zargayouna, Davide Buscaldi, Isabelle Tellier, and Thierry Charnois. 2016. Semantic Annotation of the ACL Anthology Corpus for the Automatic Analysis of Scientific Literature. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 3694–3701, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Semantic Annotation of the ACL Anthology Corpus for the Automatic Analysis of Scientific Literature (Gábor et al., LREC 2016)
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