Abstract
Creating a coreference corpus for an inflectional and free-word-order language is a challenging task due to specific syntactic features largely ignored by existing annotation guidelines, such as the absence of definite/indefinite articles (making quasi-anaphoricity very common), frequent use of zero subjects or discrepancies between syntactic and semantic heads. This paper comments on the experience gained in preparation of such a resource for an ongoing project (CORE), aiming at creating tools for coreference resolution.
Starting with a clarification of the relation between noun groups and mentions, through definition of the annotation scope and strategies, up to actual decisions for borderline cases, we present the process of building the first, to our best knowledge, corpus of general coreference of Polish.
The work reported here was carried out within the Computer-based methods for coreference resolution in Polish texts (CORE) project financed by the Polish National Science Centre (contract number 6505/B/T02/2011/40).
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Ogrodniczuk, M., Zawisławska, M., Głowińska, K., Savary, A. (2013). Coreference Annotation Schema for an Inflectional Language. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37247-6_32
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