24.1187, Confs: Semantics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 24.1187, Confs: Semantics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:45:22
From: Aynat Rubinstein [iwcs2013wamm at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on the Annotation of Modal Meanings in Natural Language

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Workshop on the Annotation of Modal Meanings in Natural Language 
Short Title: IWCS 2013 WAMM 

Date: 19-Mar-2013 - 19-Mar-2013 
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact: Aynat Rubinstein 
Contact Email: iwcs2013wamm at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/iwcs-2013-wamm/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop on the Annotation of Modal Meanings in Natural Language (WAMM)
https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/iwcs-2013-wamm/ 
Workshop to be held in conjunction with the International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS)
Potsdam, March 19, 2013

In the Workshop on the Annotation of Modal Meaning, we aim to bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds with interest in the design and development of resources for the sophisticated annotation of modal meaning in text (as expressed by modal auxiliaries, modal adjectives, and attitude verbs).

The annotation of modal meaning presents a number of wide ranging problems, relating to the choice of features to be annotated, the scopal interaction of modals with other elements, and the subtlety of the distinctions to be drawn among modality types. Modals tend to be highly ambiguous, with senses that are subtly distinct and overlapping. There are also pervasive contextual pressures on interpretation, as well as grammatical constraints operative in particular syntactic configurations. The goal of this workshop is to provide a context for discussion of the challenges raised by the annotation of modal meaning (in various languages and textual genres), as well as the application of modally annotated corpora to theoretical investigation and to practical tasks like textual entailment, factuality and sentiment analysis.

Invited Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Anette Frank (Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Heidelberg) 

9:30-9:45
Welcome

9:45-10:30
Invited talk
Annotation of modal meanings - where formal semantics can help and where it cannot
Anette Frank

10:30-10:45
Discussion

10:45-11:00
Coffee

11:00-11:20
Challenges in modality annotation in a Brazilian Portuguese Spontaneous Speech Corpus
Luciana Avila and Heliana Mello

11:20-11:30
Discussion

11:30-11:50
Influence of modality markers on the conditional interpretation of the German preposition ‘ohne’
Claudia Roch

11:50-12:00
Discussion

12:00-12:30
Analyzing modal and enunciative discursive heterogeneity:  How to combine semantic resources and a syntactic parser analysis
Delphine Battistelli and Marine Damiani

12:30-12:40
Discussion

12:40-2:15
Lunch

2:15-2:45
Toward fine-grained annotation of modality in text
Aynat Rubinstein, Hillary Harner, Elizabeth Krawczyk, Daniel Simonson, Graham Katz, and Paul Portner

2:45-2:55
Discussion

2:55-3:25
An analysis of disagreement-provoking factors in the analysis of epistemic modality and evidentiality: The case of English adverbials
Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla

3:25-3:35
Discussion

3:35-4:00
Coffee

4:00-4:30
Annotating modal expressions in the Chinese Treebank
Yanyan Cui and Ting Chi

4:30-4:40
Discussion

4:40-5:10
Distant annotation of Chinese tense and modality
Nianwen Xue, Yuchen Zhang, and Yaqin Yang

5:10-5:20
Discussion








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