A unified annotation scheme for the semantic/pragmatic components of definiteness

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 910-916

  Bhatia, Archna ^a   Simons, Mandy ^b   Levin, Lori ^a   Tsvetkov, Yulia ^a   Dyer, Chris ^a   Bender, Jordan ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphoricity; Annotation scheme; Communicative functions; Definiteness; Identi fiability; Specificity; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

ANAPHORICITY; ANNOTATION SCHEME; COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS; DEFINITENESS; IDENTI-FIABILITY; SPECIFICITY; UNIQUENESS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 84959926272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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