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Adding Semantic Annotation to the Penn TreeBank (2002)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference |
| Citations: | 136 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kingsbury02addingsemantic,
author = {Paul Kingsbury and Martha Palmer and Mitch Marcus},
title = {Adding Semantic Annotation to the Penn TreeBank},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference},
year = {2002}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents our basic approach to creating Proposition Bank, which involves adding a layer of semantic annotation to the Penn English TreeBank. Without attempting to confirm or disconfirm any particular semantic theory, our goal is to provide consistent argument labeling that will facilitate the automatic extraction of relational data. An argument such as the window in John broke the window and in The window broke would receive the same label in both sentences. In order to ensure reliable human annotation, we provide our annotators with explicit guidelines for labeling all of the syntactic and semantic frames of each particular verb. We give several examples of these guidelines and discuss the inter-annotator agreement figures. We also discuss our current experiments on the automatic expansion of our verb guidelines based on verb class membership. Our current rate of progress and our consistency of annotation demonstrate the feasibility of the task.
Keyphrases
semantic annotation penn treebank penn english treebank consistent argument basic approach verb class membership current rate semantic frame inter-annotator agreement figure explicit guideline particular semantic theory proposition bank automatic expansion reliable human annotation current experiment several example verb guideline automatic extraction relational data particular verb
