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Graph-Based Annotation Engineering: Towards a Gold Corpus for Role and Reference Grammar

Authors Christian Chiarcos , Christian Fäth

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Christian Chiarcos
  • Applied Computational Linguistics Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Christian Fäth
  • Applied Computational Linguistics Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

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The research described in this paper was conducted in the context of the project Linked Open Dictionaries (LiODi, 2015-2020), funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), as well as the project Specialised Information Service Linguistics (Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik, funding period 2017-2019) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Christian Chiarcos and Christian Fäth. Graph-Based Annotation Engineering: Towards a Gold Corpus for Role and Reference Grammar. In 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 70, pp. 9:1-9:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2019.9

Abstract

This paper describes the application of annotation engineering techniques for the construction of a corpus for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). RRG is a semantics-oriented formalism for natural language syntax popular in comparative linguistics and linguistic typology, and predominantly applied for the description of non-European languages which are less-resourced in terms of natural language processing. Because of its cross-linguistic applicability and its conjoint treatment of syntax and semantics, RRG also represents a promising framework for research challenges within natural language processing. At the moment, however, these have not been explored as no RRG corpus data is publicly available. While RRG annotations cannot be easily derived from any single treebank in existence, we suggest that they can be reliably inferred from the intersection of syntactic and semantic annotations as represented by, for example, the Universal Dependencies (UD) and PropBank (PB), and we demonstrate this for the English Web Treebank, a 250,000 token corpus of various genres of English internet text. The resulting corpus is a gold corpus for future experiments in natural language processing in the sense that it is built on existing annotations which have been created manually. A technical challenge in this context is to align UD and PB annotations, to integrate them in a coherent manner, and to distribute and to combine their information on RRG constituent and operator projections. For this purpose, we describe a framework for flexible and scalable annotation engineering based on flexible, unconstrained graph transformations of sentence graphs by means of SPARQL Update.

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  • Computing methodologies → Language resources
  • Information systems → Semantic web description languages
  • Computing methodologies → Natural language processing
  • Computing methodologies → Lexical semantics
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  • Role and Reference Grammar
  • NLP
  • Corpus
  • Semantic Web
  • LLOD
  • Syntax
  • Semantics

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  • The software described in this paper are available under the Apache 2.0 license from https://github.com/acoli-repo/RRG. This includes build scripts for the data. We aim to provide the data under the same license as the annotations it is derived from (CC-BY-SA), but we are still in the process of copyright clearance for the original text.

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