Annotating discourse anaphora

Abstract

In this paper, we present preliminary work on corpus-based anaphora resolution of discourse deixis in German. Our annotation guidelines provide linguistic tests for locating the antecedent, and for determining the semantic types of both the antecedent and the anaphor. The corpus consists of selected speaker turns from the Europarl corpus.

Abstract Coreference in a Multilingual Perspective: a View on Czech and German

“…Following Fraurud (1992), "situation" anaphora is classified into eventuality and factuality. Hedberg et al (2007), Navarretta & Olsen (2008), and Dipper & Zinsmeister (2009) present a similar distinction concerning "situation" anaphora subtypes. Dipper & Zinsmeister (2009) provide a survey of corpus-based studies on this topic, structur-47 ing them according to the form of anaphoric expressions (demonstratives, personal pronouns, etc.)…”

“…The only work known to us that provides a description of coreference to various forms of abstract antecedents is (Taulé et al, 2008). Dipper & Zinsmeister (2009) also describe the languages involved in the studies on abstract coreference. It is obvious that English predominates over other languages.…”

Shallow features as indicators of English–German contrasts in lexical cohesion

“…To our knowledge, existing resources provide annotations of individual cohesive phenomena only, e.g. pronominal coreference in the BBN Pronoun Coreference and Entity Type Corpus, (Weischedel and Brunstein, 2005), verbal phrase ellipsis in (Bos and Spenader, 2011) or conjunctive relations in PDTB, (Prasad et al, 2008), annotation of (abstract) anaphora in (Dipper and Zinsmeister, 2009) and (Dipper et al, 2012). Most of them are monolingual and apply manual annotation procedures only.…”