Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistic Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach

Kordula De Kuthy, Lisa Brunetti, Marta Berardi


Abstract
We present a discourse annotation study, in which an annotation method based on Questions under Discussion (QuD) is applied to Italian data. The results of our inter-annotator agreement analysis show that the QUD-based approach, originally spelled out for English and German, can successfully be transferred cross-linguistically, supporting good agreement for the annotation of central information structure notions such as focus and non-at-issueness. Our annotation and interannotator agreement study on Italian authentic data confirms the cross-linguistic applicability of the QuD-based approach.
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W19-4014
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Month:
August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Annemarie Friedrich, Deniz Zeyrek, Jet Hoek
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LAW
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SIGANN
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
113–123
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-4014
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-4014
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Kordula De Kuthy, Lisa Brunetti, and Marta Berardi. 2019. Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistic Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach. In Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, pages 113–123, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistic Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach (De Kuthy et al., LAW 2019)
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