Using the Semantic-Syntactic Interface for Reliable Arabic Modality Annotation

Rania Al-Sabbagh, Jana Diesner, Roxana Girju

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference
EditorsRuslan Mitkov, Jong C. Park
PublisherAsian Federation of Natural Language Processing
Pages410-418
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9784990734800
StatePublished - 2013
Event6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: Oct 14 2013 → …

Publication series

Name6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference

Conference

Conference6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period10/14/13 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software

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