Using the Semantic-Syntactic Interface for Reliable Arabic Modality Annotation

A syntactic-semantic analysis of \"منصوب به نزع خافض\"based on the Holy Quran

One of important issues in the field of implication and aggression is        "منصوب به نزع خافض". It is an idiom related to  مفعول به "”. By referring to its definition, a syntactic-semantic analysis will be done in this paper. It tries to indicate what is the relationship between word and meaning and to what extent Arabic syntax focu...

Modality and Negation in SIMT Use of Modality and Negation in Semantically-Informed Syntactic MT

This paper describes the resourceand system-building efforts of an eight-week Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration (SCALE-2009) on Semantically-Informed Machine Translation (SIMT). We describe a new modality/negation (MN) annotation scheme, the creation of a (publicly available) MN lexicon, and two automated MN tagg...

Semantic-Based Image Retrial in the VQ Compressed Domain using Image Annotation Statistical Models

A Web-based Tool for the Integrated Annotation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures

We introduce the third major release of WebAnno, a generic web-based annotation tool for distributed teams. New features in this release focus on semantic annotation tasks (e.g. semantic role labelling or event annotation) and allow the tight integration of semantic annotations with syntactic annotations. In particular, we introduce the concept of slot features, a novel constraint mechanism tha...

Annotation of Semantic Relations in Patent Documents

This paper presents the theoretical bases and quantitative results of an activity consisting in manually annotating part-whole and motion relations in patent documents. The aim of this activity was creating a gold standard for the evaluation of an automatic relation extraction tool developed by FBK-irst within the PATExpert project. For this purpose, we took the annotation scheme created for th...