TY - GEN
T1 - Treebank annotation for formal semantics research
AU - Butler, Alastair
AU - Otomo, Ruriko
AU - Zhou, Zhen
AU - Yoshimoto, Kei
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by the JST PRESTO program (Synthesis of Knowledge for Information Oriented Society). We wish to thank attendees of LENLS9 for comments received that prompted improvements of the paper.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883202868
SN - 9783642399305
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 25
EP - 40
BT - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI 2012 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 4th JSAI International Symposia on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2012
Y2 - 30 November 2012 through 1 December 2012
ER -