Henrietta Conrad


2014

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Comprehensive Annotation of Multiword Expressions in a Social Web Corpus
Nathan Schneider | Spencer Onuffer | Nora Kazour | Emily Danchik | Michael T. Mordowanec | Henrietta Conrad | Noah A. Smith
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are quite frequent in languages such as English, but their diversity, the scarcity of individual MWE types, and contextual ambiguity have presented obstacles to corpus-based studies and NLP systems addressing them as a class. Here we advocate for a comprehensive annotation approach: proceeding sentence by sentence, our annotators manually group tokens into MWEs according to guidelines that cover a broad range of multiword phenomena. Under this scheme, we have fully annotated an English web corpus for multiword expressions, including those containing gaps.