Annotation of Lexical Cohesion in English and German: Automatic and Manual Procedures
The present paper describes procedures to annotate lexical cohesion in GECCo, a corpus of English and German texts that includes both written and spoken data. Lexical cohesion is an important linguistic component of meaningful discourse and contributes to the overall coherence and thematic continuity of a text. Aiming at a highly precise, fine grained annotation and avoiding time consuming procedures, we combine automatic and manual annotation procedures. In this paper, we present the main concepts underlying the annotation and outline the encoding scheme that we apply. We describe the annotation principles and the classification of the sense relations included in our scheme. We also present both automatic and manual procedures and evaluate them in terms of their performance and inter annotator agreement.
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