Abstract
In the context of Natural Language Processing, annotation is about recovering implicit information that is useful for natural language applications. In this paper we describe a tense annotation task for Chinese - a language that does not have grammatical tense - that is designed to infer the temporal location of a situation in relation to the temporal deixis, the moment of speech. If successful, this would be a highly rewarding endeavor as it has application in many natural language systems. Our preliminary experiments show that while this is a very challenging annotation task for which high annotation consistency is very difficult but not impossible to achieve. We show that guidelines that provide a conceptually intuitive framework will be crucial to the success of this annotation effort.- Anthology ID:
- L08-1021
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2008
- Address:
- Marrakech, Morocco
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/877_paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nianwen Xue, Hua Zhong, and Kai-Yun Chen. 2008. Annotating “tense” in a Tense-less Language. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Annotating “tense” in a Tense-less Language (Xue et al., LREC 2008)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/877_paper.pdf