Discourse-level annotation for investigating information structure

Authors:
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová;Geert-Jan M. Kruijff
Affiliations:
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Venue:
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
Year:
2004

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Abstract

We present discourse-level annotation of newspaper texts in German and English, as part of an ongoing project aimed at investigating information structure from a cross-linguistic perspective. Rather than annotating some specific notion of information structure, we propose a theory-neutral annotation of basic features at the levels of syntax, prosody and discourse, using treebank data as a starting point. Our discourse-level annotation scheme covers properties of discourse referents (e.g., semantic sort, delimitation, quantification, familiarity status) and anaphoric links (coreference and bridging). We illustrate what investigations this data serves and discuss some integration issues involved in combining different levels of stand-off annotations, created by using different tools.