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Reliability vs. granularity in discourse annotation: What is the trade-off?

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Crible, Ludivine [UCL] Degand, Liesbeth [UCL]

We report on the results of an annotation experiment comparing naïve and expert coders in a sense disambiguation task consisting in the assignment of function labels to discourse markers (e.g. well, but, I mean) in spoken French and English using a taxonomy specifically designed for speech. Our qualitative-quantitative assessment of its reliability led us to suggest fundamental revisions of the structure of the taxonomy, striving to find a better balance between reliability and granularity. The resulting model articulates two independent levels of annotation (domains and functions) which, once combined, provide a robust tool for the analysis of DMs and relates them to more general functions of spoken language.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2019
Language Anglais
Journal information "Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory" - Vol. 15, no. 1, p. 71-99 (2019)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher De Gruyter Mouton ((Germany) Berlin)
issn 1613-7027
e-issn 1613-7035
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/ILC/PLIN - Pôle de recherche en linguistique
UCL - SSH/ILC - Institut Langage et Communication
Keywords discourse markers ; discourse annotation ; corpus analysis ; annotation experiment ; spoken language
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Bibliographic reference Crible, Ludivine ; Degand, Liesbeth. Reliability vs. granularity in discourse annotation: What is the trade-off?. In: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 15, no. 1, p. 71-99 (2019)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/181419