Coconstructions in spoken Universal Dependencies: guidelines and first results

Ludovica Pannitto, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Sylvain Kahane, Elena Battaglia, Bruno Guillaume, Caterina Mauri, Eleonora Zucchini

Keywords: spoken language, coconstruction, backchannel, reformulation, syntactic treebank, French, Italian, Slovenian

Working Group: WG1: Corpus annotation

WG1 Tasks: Task 1.5: Annotation of Spoken data

Abstract: The paper proposes a set of guidelines for the annotation of coconstructions and backchannels in syntactic treebanks of spoken data in the Universal Dependencies collection. 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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