Annotation Scheme and Evaluation: The Case of Offensive Language by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Slavko Žitnik, Chaya Liebeskind, Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Anna Bączkowska, Paul A. Wilson, Marcin Trojszczak, Ivana Brač, Lobel Filipić, Ana Ostroški Anić, Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Agnieszka Borowiak, Kristina Despot, Jelena Mitrović

“…The results partly support the proposed ontology of explicit offense and positive implicitness types to provide more variance among widely recognized types of figurative language (e.g., metaphorical, metonymic, ironic, etc.). The use of the annotation system and the representation of linguistic data were also evaluated in a series of the annotators’ comments, by means of a questionnaire and an open discussion. …”
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