[Corpora-List] Tools for annotating underspecified anaphoric relations

[Arndt Riester]

In my current work in the Stuttgart collaborative research area (SFB) on 
(under)specification, I am interested in a tool for annotating givenness 
relations, which may be understood as a kind of generalized anaphoricity.

A specific requirement for the tool is to account for information 
structural underspecification of texts. (More than occasionally, words 
or phrases may be understood as "discourse given" on one reading, as 
"accessible/mediated/infered" on another reading, or even as "new" on a 
third one.) I am therefore in search of an annotation tool which can be 
used to mark (a) multiple anaphoric relations and (b) various senses.

While the MMAX2 tool (EML Research, Heidelberg) offers a rather 
comfortable way to account for anaphoric ambiguitiy (pointers to 
different possible antecedents), it is not ideally suited to swallow 
more than one possible information status per markable. Other tools 
might be better suited to account for ambiguities in general but provide 
less functionality with regard to anaphoric relations.

Has anybody dealt with similar requirements and would like to share 
her/his experiences concerning tools and potential solutions?

Best
Arndt Riester

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