Title
Modality and negation: An introduction to the special issue
Abstract
Traditionally, most research in NLP has focused on propositional aspects of meaning. To truly understand language, however, extra-propositional aspects are equally important. Modality and negation typically contribute significantly to these extra-propositional meaning aspects. Although modality and negation have often been neglected by mainstream computational linguistics, interest has grown in recent years, as evidenced by several annotation projects dedicated to these phenomena. Researchers have started to work on modeling factuality, belief and certainty, detecting speculative sentences and hedging, identifying contradictions, and determining the scope of expressions of modality and negation. In this article, we will provide an overview of how modality and negation have been modeled in computational linguistics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1162/COLI_a_00095
Computational Linguistics
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational linguistics,propositional aspect,mainstream computational linguistics,special issue,speculative sentence,extra-propositional meaning aspect,recent year,extra-propositional aspect,annotation project
Alethic modality,Annotation,Certainty,Expression (mathematics),Negation,Cognitive science,Computer science,Computational linguistics,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Linguistics,Mainstream
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
2
0891-2017
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
36
1.43
109
Authors
2
Search Limit
100109
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roser Morante144233.20
Caroline Sporleder245331.84