/sense-anaphora

Publicly released data: sense anaphora annotations.

SAnaNotes -- Sense Anaphora in OntoNotes
Release: v1.0
Last update: 2016-03-31

Contents

  • train/

    688 documents (files), corresponding to 828 document parts.

  • dev/

    103 documents (files), corresponding to 104 document parts.

  • test/

    180 documents (files), corresponding to 231 document parts.

OntoNotes splits long documents into multiple parts. All parts belonging to the same document are in a single file.


Description

SAnaNotes includes sense anaphora annotations for one third of English OntoNotes in stand-off format. The OntoNotes data can be obtained from LDC (https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013T19). See the CoNLL-2012 Shared Task data (http://conll.cemantix.org/2012/data.html) for the column format.

Format

We follow the CoNLL column format that was used at the CoNLL-2012 Shared Task, where every line corresponds to a single token, and every column includes the annotation of a different linguistic level (e.g., part-of-speech tag, constituency parse tree, lemma, entity type, coreference). SAnaNotes provides an additional column with the sense anaphora information: antecedents are marked with square brackets and anaphors with parentheses

Sample file:

#begin document (bn/cnn/01/cnn_0110); part 000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
[0]
-
-
(0)
-
-

-

#end document

This means that token #12 in document ‘bn/cnn/01/cnn_0110’ is an antecedent of the sense anaphor located at token #15: antecedent-anaphor pairs share the same id (i.e., 0 in the above example).

If we align this file with the corresponding text from OntoNotes, we can interpret the annotations with respect to this sentence:

A fire in a Bangladeshi garment factory has left at least 37 [people]
dead and (100) hospitalized.

Our annotation captures that 100 is a sense anaphor with "people" as its antecedent.

Citation

If you use SAnaNotes, please cite this paper: Marta Recasens, Zhichao Hu, and Olivia Rhinehart. 2016. Sense Anaphoric Pronouns: Am I One?. In "Proceedings of CORBON 2016".

License

SAnaNotes is released under cc-by license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/