Event annotation schemes and event recognition in spanish texts

  • Authors:
  • Dina Wonsever;Aiala Rosá;Marisa Malcuori;Guillermo Moncecchi;Alan Descoins

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents an annotation scheme for events in Spanish texts, based on TimeML for English. This scheme is contrasted with different proposals, all of them based on TimeML, for various Romance languages: Italian, French and Spanish. Two manually annotated corpora for Spanish, under the proposed scheme, are now available. While manual annotation is far from trivial, we obtained a very good event identification agreement (93% of events were identically identified by both annotators). Part of the annotated text was used as a training corpus for the automatic recognition of events. In the experiments conducted so far (SVM and CRF) our best results are in the state of the art for this task (80.3% of F-measure).