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A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators

Computation and Language 2013-06-18 v2

Abstract

We introduce a framework for lightweight dependency syntax annotation. Our formalism builds upon the typical representation for unlabeled dependencies, permitting a simple notation and annotation workflow. Moreover, the formalism encourages annotators to underspecify parts of the syntax if doing so would streamline the annotation process. We demonstrate the efficacy of this annotation on three languages and develop algorithms to evaluate and compare underspecified annotations.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2091,
  title  = {A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators},
  author = {Nathan Schneider and Brendan O'Connor and Naomi Saphra and David Bamman and Manaal Faruqui and Noah A. Smith and Chris Dyer and Jason Baldridge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2091},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This is an expanded version of a paper appearing in Proceedings of the 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability with Discourse, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 8-9, 2013

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