@inproceedings{d131b57710da4f1695d7e5ddece73c84,
title = "Using the Semantic-Syntactic Interface for Reliable Arabic Modality Annotation",
abstract = "We introduce a novel modality scheme where triggers are words and phrases that convey modality meanings and subcategorize for clauses and verbal phrases. This semantic-syntactic working definition of modality enables us to design practical and replicable annotation guidelines and procedures that alleviate some shortcomings of current purely semantic modality annotation schemes and yield high inter-annotator agreement rates. We use this scheme to annotate a tweet-based Arabic corpus for modality information. This novel language resource, being the first, initiates NLP research on Arabic modality.",
author = "Rania Al-Sabbagh and Jana Diesner and Roxana Girju",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IJCNLP 2013.All right reserved.; 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 ; Conference date: 14-10-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English (US)",
series = "6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference",
publisher = "Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing",
pages = "410--418",
editor = "Ruslan Mitkov and Park, {Jong C.}",
booktitle = "6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference",
}