Coconstructions in spoken data: UD annotation guidelines and first results
Authors: Ludovica Pannitto, Sylvain Kahane, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Elena Battaglia, Bruno Guillaume, Caterina Mauri, Eleonora Zucchini
Organizations: University of Bologna, Bologna - Italy · Université Paris Nanterre, Modyco, Paris - France · University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana - Slovenia · Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy - France · Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic
The paper proposes annotation guidelines for syntactic dependencies that span across speaker turns - including collaborative coconstructions proper, wh-question answers, and backchannels - in spoken language treebanks within the Universal Dependencies framework. Two representations are proposed: a speaker-based representation following the segmentation into speech turns, and a dependency-based representation with dependencies across speech turns. New propositions are also put forward to distinguish between reformulations and repairs, and to promote elements in unfinished phrases.
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Figure 1: An Italian example of a conj:reform coconstruction and a backchannel. The example is taken from KIParla, BOA3017. Tr. en. ‘apostrophe’, ‘yes, apostrophe ’mbare ’, ‘mh’. ’mbare is a dialectal form for compare , ‘mate’.
Figure 2: Italian example ( 4.1 ) with promotion (NB: the sentence is shortened, for space reasons). The first line shows speaker-based annotation, the second line shows the intermediate graph representation of the dependency-based view and line 3 shows final UD well-formed tree for the dependency-based view.
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Supplementary material from the paper’s appendix.
Appendix
Figure 3: Original transcription of Example ( 4.1 ) in the KIParla corpus.
Figure 4: English example with lifting. Line 1: speaker-based annotation; Line 2: intermediate representation of the dependency-based view; Line 3: final UD tree for the dependency-based view
Figure 5: Slovenian example of promotion ‘[…] that he once had with her a pleasant … experience.’
Figure 6: French example with a question ‘How long has Magalie been using our magic ball?’, ‘for two months’
Figure 7: Italian repair example, see Example ( 4.2 ) for translation.