IRCS Technical Reports Series
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
12-17-2007
Abstract
This report contains the guidelines for the annotation of discourse relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pdtb), PDTB. Discourse relations in the PDTB are annotated in a bottom up fashion, and capture both lexically realized relations as well as implicit relations. Guidelines in this report are provided for all aspects of the annotation, including annotation explicit discourse connectives, implicit relations, arguments of relations, senses of relations, and the attribution of relations and their arguments. The report also provides descriptions of the annotation format representation.
Keywords
natural language processing, discourse analysis, discourse structure, discourse coherence, annotation
Date Posted: 04 May 2011