Title
Treebank annotation for formal semantics research
Abstract
This paper motivates and describes treebank annotation for Japanese and English following a scheme adapted from the Annotation manual for the Penn Historical Corpora and the PCEEC (Santorini 2010). The purpose of this annotation is to create a syntactic base from which meaning representations can be built automatically on a corpus linguistics scale (thousands of examples). Advantages of the adopted annotation scheme are highlighted. Most notably, marking clause level functional information is essential for deterministically building meaning representations beyond the predicate-argument structure level. Also an internal syntax where phrasal categories are fundamentally similar is of great assistance. Finally, the paper demonstrates how scope information is simple to add when bracketed syntactic structure is inherently flat.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_3
JSAI-isAI Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
meaning representation,clause level functional information,paper motivates,bracketed syntactic structure,predicate-argument structure level,deterministically building meaning representation,annotation scheme,treebank annotation,syntactic base,scope information,formal semantics research
Annotation,Computer science,Relative clause,Natural language processing,Treebank,Corpus linguistics,Artificial intelligence,Syntax,Semantics of logic,Syntactic structure
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alastair Butler121.78
Ruriko Otomo200.34
Zhen Zhou300.34
Kei Yoshimoto43612.04