Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
February 2008
Document Type
Book Chapter
Recommended Citation
Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, and Aravind K. Joshi, "Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank", . February 2008.
Abstract
An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives, i.e., lexical items like because and as a result or implicit connectives expressing an inferred discourse relation. The Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB) provides annotations of the argument structure, attribution and semantics of discourse connectives. In this paper, we provide the rationale of the tagset, detailed descriptions of the senses with corpus examples, simple semantic definitions of each type of sense tags as well as informal descriptions of the inferences allowed at each level.
Date Posted: 18 September 2008
Comments
Postprint version. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4919, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text, 2008, pages 275-286.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_23