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20/08/2020 - 16:06

The research article “TED Multilingual Discourse Bank (TED-MDB): a parallel corpus annotated in the PDTB style”, co-authored by METU member Prof. Deniz Zeyrek Bozşahin, has been published in Language Resources and Evaluation.

TED-Multilingual Discourse Bank, or TED-MDB, is a multilingual resource where TED-talks are annotated at the discourse level in 6 languages (English, Polish, German, Russian, European Portuguese, and Turkish) following the aims and principles of PDTB. We explain the corpus design criteria, which has three main features: the linguistic characteristics of the languages involved, the interactive nature of TED talks—which led us to annotate Hypophora, and the decision to avoid projection. We report our annotation consistency, and post-annotation alignment experiments, and provide a cross-lingual comparison based on corpus statistics.


Zeyrek, D., Mendes, A., Grishina, Y., Kurfalı, M., Gibbon, S., & Ogrodniczuk, M. (2020). TED multilingual discourse bank (TED-MDB): A parallel corpus annotated in the PDTB style. Language Resources and Evaluation, 54(2), 587-613. doi:10.1007/s10579-019-09445-9

 

Article access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-019-09445-9


METU Author

Prof. Deniz Zeyrek Bozşahin

Web of Science/Publons Researcher ID: M-8082-2017
dezeyrek@metu.edu.tr Scopus Author ID: 36055536300
About the author ORCID: 0000-0001-9248-0141

Tags/Keywords:

Annotation, Corpus creation, Discourse, Discourse relations, Multilingual corpus


Other authors:
Mendes, A., Grishina, Y., Kurfalı, M. (METU), Gibbon, S., & Ogrodniczuk, M.


Acknowledgment:
We thank our annotators (Robin Goodfellow Malamud, Robin Schäfer, Olha Zolotarenko, Nuno Martins, Aida Cardoso, Celina Heliasz, Joanna Bilińska, Daniel Ziembicki, İpek Süsoy). The research has been partially supported by Textlink, by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey—BIDEB-2219 Postdoctoral Research program, by the Polish National Science Centre (Contract Number 2014/15/B/HS2/03435) and by the FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (project ID: PEst-OE/LIN/UI0214/2013). The support of Bonnie Webber and Manfred Stede is greatly acknowledged though all errors are our own.