A Rich Annotation Scheme for Mental Events

William Croft, Pavlína Pešková, Michael Regan, Sook-kyung Lee


Abstract
We present a rich annotation scheme for the structure of mental events. Mental events are those in which the verb describes a mental state or process, usually oriented towards an external situation. While physical events have been described in detail and there are numerous studies of their semantic analysis and annotation, mental events are less thoroughly studied. The annotation scheme proposed here is based on decompositional analyses in the semantic and typological linguistic literature. The scheme was applied to the news corpus from the 2016 Events workshop, and error analysis of the test annotation provides suggestions for refinement and clarification of the annotation scheme.
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W18-4302
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018
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August
Year:
2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A
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Tommaso Caselli, Ben Miller, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Martha Palmer, Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura, David Caswell, Susan W. Brown, Claire Bonial
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EventStory
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7–17
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-4302
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William Croft, Pavlína Pešková, Michael Regan, and Sook-kyung Lee. 2018. A Rich Annotation Scheme for Mental Events. In Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018, pages 7–17, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Rich Annotation Scheme for Mental Events (Croft et al., EventStory 2018)
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