Presentation of the presentation about the Metadiscourse annotator at "Portal Use Case focus meeting" of the <a href="http://textlink.ii.metu.edu.tr/" target="_blank">TextLink: Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe</a> in Edinburgh, UK

1. (Meta-)discourse annotator
Constantin Orasan
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093

2. ● Reader in Computational Linguistics at University of
Wolverhampton, UK
● I worked on and off in anaphora/coreference resolution
● Wrote PALinkA
● Involved in the creation of several coreferentially
annotated corpora
About me

3. ●
Originated as a result of discussion with Marisa Carrio
Pastor for University of Valencia, Spain
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Needed a tool to annotate meta-discourse markers
– Disambiguate
– Assign categories
– Analyse the annotation
– Calculate various statistics
Meta-discourse annotator

4. ●
There is a set of single/multi word expressions that need to
be annotated with:
– Senses
– Categories
– Notes about special cases
– Indicate ambiguity
– Indicate cases of disagreements between annotators
(Meta-)discourse annotator

5. Meta-discourse annotator

6. Annotation

7. Analysis

8. Analysis

9. Analysis

10. Analysis

11. ●
Tool written in PHP (Symfony) + MySQL
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On going development
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Hopefully I will be able to include some machine learning
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Available on GitHub:
https://github.com/dinel/metadiscourse-annotator
About the tool

12. Constantin Orasan, C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk
Thank you!