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An Annotation Scheme for Quantifier Scope Disambiguation

Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen, Mary Swift


Abstract
Annotating natural language sentences with quantifier scoping has proved to be very hard. In order to overcome the challenge, previous work on building scope-annotated corpora has focused on sentences with two explicitly quantified noun phrases (NPs). Furthermore, it does not address the annotation of scopal operators or complex NPs such as plurals and definites. We present the first annotation scheme for quantifier scope disambiguation where there is no restriction on the type or the number of scope-bearing elements in the sentence. We discuss some of the most prominent complex scope phenomena encountered in annotating the corpus, such as plurality and type-token distinction, and present mechanisms to handle those phenomena.
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L12-1547
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
Month:
May
Year:
2012
Address:
Istanbul, Turkey
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
1546–1553
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URL:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/914_Paper.pdf
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Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen, and Mary Swift. 2012. An Annotation Scheme for Quantifier Scope Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1546–1553, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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An Annotation Scheme for Quantifier Scope Disambiguation (Manshadi et al., LREC 2012)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/914_Paper.pdf