What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus
After a short summary of the theory of Topic-Focus Articulation (TFA) the present contribution documents on several examples illustrating the annotation of the basic features of TFA on a large corpus (the Prague Dependency Treebank) that corpus annotation brings an additional value to the corpus if...
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University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice
2012-09-01
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| description | After a short summary of the theory of Topic-Focus Articulation (TFA) the present contribution documents on several examples illustrating the annotation of the basic features of TFA on a large corpus (the Prague Dependency Treebank) that corpus annotation brings an additional value to the corpus if the following two conditions are being met: (i) the annotation scheme is based on a sound linguistic theory, and (ii) the annotation scenario is carefully (i.e. systematically and consistently) designed. Such an annotation is important not only for the surface shape of the sentence but even more for the underlying sentence structure: it may elucidate phenomena hidden on the surface but unavoidable for the representation of the meaning and functioning of the sentence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ef25a2a36844f71abcb0c0846ee06962022-12-21T19:09:54ZspaUniversity of South Bohemia, Ceske BudejoviceEcho des Etudes Romanes1801-08651804-83582012-09-01815164What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpusEva HajičováAfter a short summary of the theory of Topic-Focus Articulation (TFA) the present contribution documents on several examples illustrating the annotation of the basic features of TFA on a large corpus (the Prague Dependency Treebank) that corpus annotation brings an additional value to the corpus if the following two conditions are being met: (i) the annotation scheme is based on a sound linguistic theory, and (ii) the annotation scenario is carefully (i.e. systematically and consistently) designed. Such an annotation is important not only for the surface shape of the sentence but even more for the underlying sentence structure: it may elucidate phenomena hidden on the surface but unavoidable for the representation of the meaning and functioning of the sentence.http://www.eer.cz/files/2012-1/2012-1-04-Hajicova.pdfTopic-Focus Articulationcorpus annotationPrague Dependency Treebank |
| spellingShingle | Eva Hajičová What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus Echo des Etudes Romanes Topic-Focus Articulation corpus annotation Prague Dependency Treebank |
| title | What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus |
| title_full | What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus |
| title_fullStr | What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus |
| title_full_unstemmed | What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus |
| title_short | What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus |
| title_sort | what we have learned from complex annotation of topic focus articulation in a large czech corpus |
| topic | Topic-Focus Articulation corpus annotation Prague Dependency Treebank |
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