Annotating abstract anaphora

  • Authors:
  • Stefanie Dipper;Heike Zinsmeister

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany 44780;Institute of Linguistics, Konstanz University, Konstanz, Germany 78457

  • Venue:
  • Language Resources and Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2012
  • Resolving "this-issue" anaphora

    EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

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Abstract

In this paper, we present first results from annotating abstract (discourse-deictic) anaphora in German. Our annotation guidelines provide linguistic tests for identifying the antecedent, and for determining the semantic types of both the antecedent and the anaphor. The corpus consists of selected speaker turns from the Europarl corpus. To date, 100 texts have been annotated according to these guidelines. The annotations show that anaphoric personal and demonstrative pronouns differ with respect to the distance to their antecedents. A semantic analysis reveals that, contrary to suggestions put forward in the literature, referents of anaphors do not tend to be more abstract than the referents of their antecedents.