Open AccessA linguistically-motivated annotation model of modality in English and Spanish: Insights from MULTINOT
Author(s) -
Julia Lavid,
M.E. Carretero,
Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
linguistic issues in language technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-3590
pISSN - 1945-3604
DOI - 10.33011/lilt.v14i.1399
Subject(s) - annotation , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , modality (human–computer interaction) , context (archaeology) , modal , scheme (mathematics) , linguistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , chemistry , polymer chemistry , paleontology , biology
In this paper we present current work on the design and validation of a linguistically-motivated annotation model of modality in English and Spanish in the context of the MULTINOT project. Our annotation model captures four basic modal meanings and their subtypes, on the one hand, and provides a fine-grained characterisation of the syntactic realisations of those meanings in English and Spanish, on the other. We validate the modal tagset proposed through an agreement study performed on a bilingual sample of four hundred sentences extracted from original texts of the MULTINOT corpus, and discuss the difficult cases encountered in the annotation experiment. We also describe current steps in the implementation of the proposed scheme for the large-scale annotation of the bilingual corpus using both automatic and manual procedures.