Annotating abstract anaphora

Dipper, Stefanie; Zinsmeister, Heike

doi:10.1007/s10579-011-9160-1

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“…The two studies show divergent co-reference distributions for the personal pronoun It and the demonstrative This: a bias towards entity coreference for It and a bias for event co-reference for This. As far as we know, this pattern has been proposed (Dipper and Zinsmeister, 2010), but not properly measured. Given the oft-assumed division of labor between these two pronouns, what is notable is their flexibility.…”

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“…It, This and That are also frequent in dialogue data for which co-reference sys-1 Here we call event what is more commonly known as abstract anaphora (cf. Dipper and Zinsmeister (2010); Nedoluzhko and Lapshinova-Koltunski (2016)). We take as an event any non-nominal relationship for the pronouns It and This and a textual antecedent in the form of a text span of variable length (e.g., a word, a clause, several sentences).…”

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Event versus entity co-reference: Effects of context and form of referring expression

Loáiciga¹,

Bevacqua²,

Rohde³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Models Of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference

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Anaphora resolution systems require both an enumeration of possible candidate antecedents and an identification process of the antecedent. This paper focuses on (i) the impact of the form of referring expression on entity-vsevent preferences and (ii) how properties of the passage interact with referential form. Two crowd-sourced story-continuation experiments were conducted, using constructed and naturally-occurring passages, to see how participants interpret It and This pronouns following a context sentence that makes available event and entity referents. Our participants show a strong, but not categorical, bias to use This to refer to events and It to refer to entities. However, these preferences vary with passage characteristics such as verb class (a proxy in our constructed examples for the number of explicit and implicit entities) and more subtle author intentions regarding subsequent re-mention (the original event-vs-entity re-mention of our corpus items).

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Event versus entity co-reference: Effects of context and form of referring expression

Loáiciga¹,

Bevacqua²,

Rohde³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Models Of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference

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“…Their collection included 455 instances of discourse deixis, although they noted ambiguity in the set of markables. Dipper and Zinsmeister (2012) also addressed discourse deixis through anaphora resolution and produced a collection of 225 abstract anaphors out of 643 candidate instances.…”

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Determiner-Established Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Pedagogical Text

Wilson¹,

Oberlander²

2014

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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Pedagogical materials frequently contain deixis to communicative artifacts such as textual structures (e.g., sections and lists), discourse entities, and illustrations. By relating such artifacts to the prose, deixis plays an essential role in structuring the flow of information in informative writing. However, existing language technologies have largely overlooked this mechanism. We examine properties of deixis to communicative artifacts using a corpus rich in determiner-established instances of the phenomenon (e.g., "this section", "these equations", "those reasons") from Wikibooks, a collection of learning texts. We use this corpus in combination with WordNet to determine a set of word senses that are characteristic of the phenomenon, showing its diversity and validating intuitions about its qualities. The results motivate further research to extract the connections encoded by such deixis, with the goals of enhancing tools to present pedagogical e-texts to readers and, more broadly, improving language technologies that rely on deictic phenomena.

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“…In this paper, we address the problem of crosslingual incongruences in the manual annotation of coreference. To our knowledge, none of the existing studies on parallel coreference annotation (Dipper and Zinsmeister, 2012;Zikánová et al, 2015;Grishina and Stede, 2017) addresses this issue. We analyse the incongruences in coreference chains in a subset of the corpus ParCorFull (Lapshinova-Koltunski et al, 2018), an English-German parallel corpus containing manual annotations of coreference.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cross-lingual Incongruences in the Annotation of Coreference

Lapshinova-Koltunski¹,

Loáiciga²,

Hardmeier³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference

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In the present paper, we deal with incongruences in English-German multilingual coreference annotation and present automated methods to discover them. More specifically, we automatically detect full coreference chains in parallel texts and analyse discrepancies in their annotations. In doing so, we wish to find out whether the discrepancies rather derive from language typological constraints, from the translation or the actual annotation process. The results of our study contribute to the referential analysis of similarities and differences across languages and support evaluation of cross-lingual coreference annotation. They are also useful for cross-lingual coreference resolution systems and contrastive linguistic studies.

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Annotating abstract anaphora

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Event versus entity co-reference: Effects of context and form of referring expression

Event versus entity co-reference: Effects of context and form of referring expression

Determiner-Established Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Pedagogical Text

Cross-lingual Incongruences in the Annotation of Coreference

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