Annotation Guideline No. 7: Guidelines for annotation of narrative structure

Annotation Guidelines for Rhetorical Structure

Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988, Taboada and Mann, 2006) postulates that a coherent text can be characterized by means of a tree structure whose leaves are the “elementary discourse units” (henceforth: EDUs), and whose internal nodes are labelled with a coherence relation. The theory proposes a list of about 25 such relations, which may be said to hold between two EDUs or (...

Information Structure Annotation : Adapting Potsdam SFB 632 Information Structure Guidelines to Narrative Data Containing Dialogues

Annotation Guidelines

Fuzzy Neighbor Voting for Automatic Image Annotation

With quick development of digital images and the availability of imaging tools, massive amounts of images are created. Therefore, efficient management and suitable retrieval, especially by computers, is one of themost challenging fields in image processing. Automatic image annotation (AIA) or refers to attaching words, keywords or comments to an image or to a selected part of it. In this paper,...

Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure

We present a pragmatic, i.e. meaning-based, method for the information-structural analysis of corpus data, which is built on the idea that for any assertion contained in a text (or transcript of spoken discourse) there is an implicit Question under Discussion (QUD) that determines which parts of the assertion are focused or backgrounded (and which ones are not-at-issue, i.e. not part of the ass...