Annotating underquantification

  • Authors:
  • Aurelie Herbelot;Ann Copestake

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • LAW IV '10 Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many noun phrases in text are ambiguously quantified: syntax doesn't explicitly tell us whether they refer to a single entity or to several, and what portion of the set denoted by the Nbar actually takes part in the event expressed by the verb. We describe this ambiguity phenomenon in terms of underspecification, or rather underquantification. We attempt to validate the underquantification hypothesis by producing and testing an annotation scheme for quantification resolution, the aim of which is to associate a single quantifier with each noun phrase in our corpus.