A Karaka Based Annotation Scheme for English

  • Authors:
  • Ashwini Vaidya;Samar Husain;Prashanth Mannem;Dipti Misra Sharma

  • Affiliations:
  • Language Technologies Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India;Language Technologies Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India;Language Technologies Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India;Language Technologies Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The paper describes an annotation scheme for English based on Panini's concept of karakas. We describe how the scheme handles certain constructions in English. By extending the karaka scheme for a fixed word order language, we hope to bring out its advantages as a concept that incorporates some `local semantics'. Our comparison with PTB-II and PropBank brings out its intermediary status between a morpho-syntactic and semantic level. Further work can show how this could benefit tasks like semantic role labeling and automatic conversion of existing English treebanks into this scheme.