A linguistically-motivated annotation model of modality in English and Spanish: Insights from MULTINOT release_cn5p22x3tjbapc2rvh6eqw2s5y

by Julia Lavid, Marta Carretero, Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla

Published in Linguistic Issues in Language Technology by University of Colorado at Boulder.

2016   Volume 14

Abstract

In this paper we present current work on the design and validation of a linguistically-motivated annotation model of modality in English and Spanish in the context of the MULTINOT project. Our annotation model captures four basic modal meanings and their subtypes, on the one hand, and provides a fine-grained characterisation of the syntactic realisations of those meanings in English and Spanish, on the other. We validate the modal tagset proposed through an agreement study performed on a bilingual sample of four hundred sentences extracted from original texts of the MULTINOT corpus, and discuss the difficult cases encountered in the annotation experiment. We also describe current steps in the implementation of the proposed scheme for the large-scale annotation of the bilingual corpus using both automatic and manual procedures.
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