Abstract
We present a discourse annotation study, in which an annotation method based on Questions under Discussion (QuD) is applied to Italian data. The results of our inter-annotator agreement analysis show that the QUD-based approach, originally spelled out for English and German, can successfully be transferred cross-linguistically, supporting good agreement for the annotation of central information structure notions such as focus and non-at-issueness. Our annotation and interannotator agreement study on Italian authentic data confirms the cross-linguistic applicability of the QuD-based approach.- Anthology ID:
- W19-4014
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Annemarie Friedrich, Deniz Zeyrek, Jet Hoek
- Venue:
- LAW
- SIG:
- SIGANN
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 113–123
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-4014
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-4014
- Cite (ACL):
- Kordula De Kuthy, Lisa Brunetti, and Marta Berardi. 2019. Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistic Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach. In Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, pages 113–123, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistic Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach (De Kuthy et al., LAW 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/W19-4014.pdf