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Interlingual annotation of parallel text corpora: a new framework for annotation and evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2010

BONNIE J. DORR ,
REBECCA J. PASSONNEAU ,
DAVID FARWELL ,
REBECCA GREEN ,
NIZAR HABASH ,
STEPHEN HELMREICH ,
EDUARD HOVY ,
LORI LEVIN ,
KEITH J. MILLER  and
TERUKO MITAMURA
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BONNIE J. DORR
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, AVW Williams Building 3153, College Park, MD 20742, USA e-mail: [email protected]
REBECCA J. PASSONNEAU
Affiliation:
Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, 475 Riverside Drive MC 7717, New York, NY 10115, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
DAVID FARWELL
Affiliation:
Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88001, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected]
REBECCA GREEN
Affiliation:
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017-3395, USA e-mail: [email protected]
NIZAR HABASH
Affiliation:
Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, 475 Riverside Drive MC 7717, New York, NY 10115, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
STEPHEN HELMREICH
Affiliation:
Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88001, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected]
EDUARD HOVY
Affiliation:
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA e-mail: [email protected]
LORI LEVIN
Affiliation:
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected]
KEITH J. MILLER
Affiliation:
The MITRE Corporation, 7515 Colshire Drive, Mc Lean, VA 22102-7539, USA e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
TERUKO MITAMURA
Affiliation:
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected]
OWEN RAMBOW
Affiliation:
Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, 475 Riverside Drive MC 7717, New York, NY 10115, USA e-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
ADVAITH SIDDHARTHAN
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper focuses on an important step in the creation of a system of meaning representation and the development of semantically annotated parallel corpora, for use in applications such as machine translation, question answering, text summarization, and information retrieval. The work described below constitutes the first effort of any kind to annotate multiple translations of foreign-language texts with interlingual content. Three levels of representation are introduced: deep syntactic dependencies (IL0), intermediate semantic representations (IL1), and a normalized representation that unifies conversives, nonliteral language, and paraphrase (IL2). The resulting annotated, multilingually induced, parallel corpora will be useful as an empirical basis for a wide range of research, including the development and evaluation of interlingual NLP systems and paraphrase-extraction systems as well as a host of other research and development efforts in theoretical and applied linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, translation studies, and other related disciplines.

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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 197 - 243
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