Kordula De Kuthy, Nils Reiter, Arndt Riester. QUD-Based Annotation of Discourse Structure and Information Structure: Tool and Evaluation. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair), Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Koiti Hasida, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Takenobu Tokunaga (eds.): Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Paris, France, May 2018.

Abstract

We discuss and evaluate a new annotation scheme and discourse-analytic method, the QUD-tree framework. We present an annotation study, in which the framework, based on the concept of Questions under Discussion, is applied to English and German interview data, using TreeAnno, an annotation tool specially developed for this new kind of discourse annotation. The results of an inter-annotator agreement study show that the new annotation method allows for reasonable agreement with regard to discourse structure and good agreement with regard to the annotation of information structure, which covers focus, background, contrastive topic and non-at-issue material.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ Kuthy2018aa, Title = {{QUD-Based Annotation of Discourse Structure and Information Structure: Tool and Evaluation}}, Address = { Paris, France }, Author = { Kordula De Kuthy and Nils Reiter and Arndt Riester }, Editor = { Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga }, Booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}}, Publisher = { European Language Resources Association (ELRA) }, Location = { Miyazaki, Japan }, Isbn = { 979-10-95546-00-9 }, Month = { May }, Year = { 2018 } }

RIS

TY - TI - QUD-Based Annotation of Discourse Structure and Information Structure: Tool and Evaluation AU - Kordula De Kuthy AU - Nils Reiter AU - Arndt Riester ED - Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) ED - Khalid Choukri ED - Christopher Cieri ED - Thierry Declerck ED - Sara Goggi ED - Koiti Hasida ED - Hitoshi Isahara ED - Bente Maegaard ED - Joseph Mariani ED - Hélène Mazo ED - Asuncion Moreno ED - Jan Odijk ED - Stelios Piperidis ED - Takenobu Tokunaga PY - 2018 CY - Paris, France PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA) CY - Miyazaki, Japan J2 - Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) ER -