Title
Modality in Text: a Proposal for Corpus Annotation.
Abstract
We present a annotation scheme for modality in Portuguese. In our annotation scheme we have tried to combine a more theoretical linguistic viewpoint with a practical annotation scheme that will also be useful for NLP research but is not geared towards one specific application. Our notion of modality focuses on the attitude and opinion of the speaker, or of the subject of the sentence. We validated the annotation scheme on a corpus sample of approximately 2000 sentences that we fully annotated with modal information using the MMAX2 annotation tool to produce XML annotation. We discuss our main findings and give attention to the difficult cases that we encountered as they illustrate the complexity of modality and its interactions with other elements in the text.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Modality,Corpus Annotation,Portuguese
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
7
0.54
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iris Hendrickx128530.91
Amália Mendes2198.15
Silvia Mencarelli370.54