[Corpora-List] source attribution

[bergler at cse.concordia.ca]

Hi,

while it may not be exactly what you are looking for, there is some  
relevant old work on source attribution for reported speech and a  
recent application that deals with the respective belief spaces:

Sabine Bergler 1992. The Evidential Analysis of Reported Speech. PhD  
Dissertation, Brandeis University, Massachusetts.

Sabine Bergler 1995. From Lexical Semantics to Text Analysis, in P.  
Saint-Dizier and E. Viegas (eds), Computational Lexical Semantics ,  
Cambridge,UK:Cambridge University Press.

R. Krestel, R. Witte, and S. Bergler 2007. Processing of Beliefs  
Extracted from Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles. In: Proceedings  
of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language  
Processing (RANLP 2007), September 27 - 29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.

Ralf Krestel, Sabine Bergler and Rene Witte 2008. Minding the Source:  
Automatic Tagging of Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles. In  
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language  
Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.  
Poster presentation.

Sabine



> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Asad Sayeed <asayeed at mbl.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on a project that involves source attribution.  In
>> particular, I have a predetermined list of topics (at least for
>> starters) and I want to find out, for each document in a corpus, who
>> expressed an opinion about that topic.  ie, "X talked about Y".
>>
>> My own searches have found that a lot of the work on source attribution
>> seems to be about attributing the source of an entire nearby
>> proposition, not merely a (potentially indirect) relationship to some
>> topic mentioned in the document.
>>
>> However, I was wondering if anyone on this list had any suggestions of
>> where to look for existing current work on this, as I'm likely to have
>> missed something.
>>
>> Yours,
>> --Asad.
>>
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