Published: 2018-12-10
ISBN: 978-91-7685-137-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper describes a corpus building program implemented for Japanese (Contemporary and Old) and for English. First, constituent tree syntactic annotations defined to describe intuitions about sentence meaning are added to the texts. The annotations undergo tree transformations that normalise the analyses while preserving basic syntactic relations. The normalisation takes the parsed data for what are very different languages to a level where language particulars have a common interface to feed a semantic calculation. This calculation makes explicit connective, predicate, argument, and operator-binding information. Such derived information reflects uni- versal principles of language: headedness, argumenthood, modification, co-reference, scope, etc. The semantic calculation also sets some minimal conditions for well-formedness: that pred- icative expressions are paired with subjects; that pro-forms have retrievable referents; that a constituent is associated with at least one grammatical function, etc. Annotators confirm and correct the source annotation with the aid of a visualisation tool that integrates the calculated output as overlaid dependency links. In this way annotators ensure that their interpretation of a text is correctly represented in its annotation. Furthermore, the integration of results from the semantic calculation makes it possible to establish multiple layers of grammatical dependencies with a minimum of invested annotation work.
parsed corpus, sentence and discourse meaning, normalisation, frammatical dependencies, discourse referents, visualisation
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