%0 Conference Paper %1 OSeaghdha:07a %A Séaghdha, Diarmuid Ó %B Proceedings of the 4th Corpus Linguistics Conference %C Birmingham, UK %D 2007 %K 2007 annotation compounds nlp %T Designing and Evaluating a Semantic Annotation Scheme for Compound Nouns %U http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~do242/Papers/dos_cl2007.pdf %X There is no standard set of semantic relations for classifying noun-noun compounds. This paper describes the development of a new annotation scheme which fulfils a number of desirable criteria. A rigorous dual-annotator experiment indicates that reasonably good agreement can be achieved but that the task remains a very difficult one. Analysis of the annotators' disagreements suggests which categories are most problematic and identifies specific cases for which the annotation guidelines could be further refined. Nonetheless there is a very long tail of disagreement patterns which render infeasible the production of fully exhaustive guidelines.

@inproceedings{OSeaghdha:07a, abstract = {There is no standard set of semantic relations for classifying noun-noun compounds. This paper describes the development of a new annotation scheme which fulfils a number of desirable criteria. A rigorous dual-annotator experiment indicates that reasonably good agreement can be achieved but that the task remains a very difficult one. Analysis of the annotators' disagreements suggests which categories are most problematic and identifies specific cases for which the annotation guidelines could be further refined. Nonetheless there is a very long tail of disagreement patterns which render infeasible the production of fully exhaustive guidelines.}, added-at = {2008-08-14T17:32:10.000+0200}, address = {Birmingham, UK}, author = {Séaghdha, Diarmuid Ó}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f07b10c09fcdc98677277993f8b172ff/seandalai}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Corpus Linguistics Conference}, interhash = {fa56f444b65a40a265073379cf533d80}, intrahash = {f07b10c09fcdc98677277993f8b172ff}, keywords = {2007 annotation compounds nlp}, timestamp = {2008-08-14T17:32:13.000+0200}, title = {Designing and Evaluating a Semantic Annotation Scheme for Compound Nouns}, url = {http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~do242/Papers/dos_cl2007.pdf}, year = 2007 }