A corpus study of negative imperatives in natural language instructions

  • Authors:
  • Keith Vander Linden;Barbara Di Eugenio

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

In this paper, we define the notion of a preventative expression and discuss a corpus study of such expressions in instructional text. We discuss our coding schema, which takes into account both form and function features, and present measures of inter-coder reliability for those features. We then discuss the correlations that exist between the function and the form features.