26.1077, FYI: Discourse Annotation of French Corpora

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Subject: 26.1077, FYI: Discourse Annotation of French Corpora

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:41:11
From: Jacques Steinlin [jacques.steinlin at gmail.com]
Subject: Discourse Annotation of French Corpora

 
The project, realized at Alpage (Inria, France), consists of discursive
annotation in the vein of the Penn Discourse Treebank (Prasad et al. 2008).
Its aim is to add a discourse annotation layer to existing morpho-syntactic
annotations. The corpora in question are sections of the French Sequoia
Treebank: texts from http://www.wikipedia.fr and from the newspaper l'Est
Républicain (Candito and Seddah, 2012,
https://www.rocq.inria.fr/alpage-wiki/tiki-index.php?page=CorpusSequoia) as
well as the full French Treebank, a journalistic corpus consisting of 1005
articles and 18,535 sentences (Abeillé et al. 2000,
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Abeille/French-Treebank-fr.php).

The first step was the identification of ''discourse connectives'' in the
corpora. This involved projecting items from LexConn (a lexicon of French
discourse connectives containing about 350 items) onto the corpora and keeping
only those items that are used discursively. A total of 11,000 connective
items have been identified and manually annotated.

The annotated corpora, the lexicon of French discourse connectives and the
annotation guide are available at: 
https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=6145.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): French (fra)





 



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