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Workshop Opening Beyond Semantics Stefanie Dipper 1 & Heike Zinsmeister 2 1 Ruhr University Bochum 2 Konstanz University AG 1 Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 Georg-August-Universitt Gttingen Stefanie Dipper & Heike

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Workshop Opening “Beyond Semantics”

Stefanie Dipper1 & Heike Zinsmeister2

1Ruhr University Bochum 2Konstanz University

AG 1 “Beyond Semantics” DGfS 2011 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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The Workshop “Beyond Semantics”

Program Change

The talk by Zulaica-Hernandez & Gutierrez-Rexach has been cancelled The talk by Aguilar-Guevara et al. takes that slot The modified program of Friday: 11:30 – 12:00 Costanza Navarretta Antecedent and referent types

abstract pronominal anaphora 12:00 – 12:30 Aguilar-Guevara et al. Semantics and pragmatics

indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study 12:30 – 13:30 Stefanie Dipper and Heike Zinsmeister Plenary discussion and closing remarks

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The Workshop “Beyond Semantics”

A Commercial Break

Poster session of the Computational Linguistics group → Thursday, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., ZHG

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Socializing: Workshop Dinner

(NOT the conference dinner!)

Thursday evening, 8:15 p.m. (after the reception at the city hall) Restaurant Lehmofen (Turkish cuisine) à la carte, everybody at one own’s costs Please sign up by this afternoon

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Workshop Talks

Preferably: put your PDF slides on Heike’s MacBook (or: PPT, ODP) Otherwise: test your laptop during the break before your talk Chairs:

Arndt Riester: Wednesday, Feb 23 Versley, Flöck, Degaetano/Teich, Tremper/Frank Costanza Navarretta: Thursday, Feb 24 Cook/Bildhauer, Riester/Baumann, Chiarcos Yannick Versley: Friday, Feb 25 Navarretta, Aguilar-Guevara et al.

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Workshop Proceedings

We recieved 19 submissions from 8 countries, 13 have been accepted Working papers BLA (“Bochumer Linguistische Arbeiten”) Online Proceedings: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bla/ (not yet online) Plus: printed edition for authors (1 copy per speaker) → Get your copy during the coffee break!

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The Workshop “Beyond Semantics”

Journal Proposal

Journal Dialogue and Discourse Founded 2009 From the journal’s website:

D&D is the first international journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language “beyond the single sentence”, in discourse (i.e., text, monologue) and dialogue. Open to interested readers everywhere (open access).

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Selected Journal Topics

“Linguistic analysis of phenomena characteristic of discourse and/or dialogue (including, but not limited to: reference and anaphora, presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature, discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles, the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts, questions, imperatives, non-sentential utterances, intonation, and meta-communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding)”

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The Workshop “Beyond Semantics”

Tentative Timetable

March 31 2011: Open call May 31 2011: Three-page abstract (intent to submit) Sep 15 2011: Submission deadline Nov 15 2011: Reviews due Dec 31 2011: Revisions Jan 31 2012: Publication

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The Workshop “Beyond Semantics”

Goals of the Workshop

Bring together Theoretical linguists who use texts and corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions Corpus linguists / computational linguists who create and annotate relevant corpus resources, or exploit them Explore both sides of the coin Evaluate theory of pragmatic and discourse phenomena by applying it to corpus data Optain linguistically better informed annotated data

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The Workshop “Beyond Semantics”

Goals of the Workshop

Raising awareness for the challenges and merits of the annotation of “beyond” phenomena More general / more specific corpus queries Evaluation of theory by inter-annotator agreement Training of models for natural language processing that go beyond syntax

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The Workshop Program: Topics

Reference to discourse referents (Givenness Hierarchy, Bridging Relations, Centering Theory, or Haspelmath’s approach) Chiarcos, Navarretta, Korzen & Matthias Buch-Kromann, and Aguilar-Guevara et al. Annotation of information-structural features (topic and focus) Riester & Baumann, Cook & Bildhauer Analysis of discourse-structure (Rhetorical Structure Theory, Penn Discourse TreeBank, etc.) van der Vliet et al., Versley, Buch-Kromann et al. Speakers’ attitudes Degaetano & Teich, Flöck Presuppositional relations Tremper & Frank

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The Workshop Program: Keynote Speeches

Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University): Patterns of Explicit and Implicit Clausal Connectors: What this might suggest for “beyond semantics” Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University): Making Sense of Word Sense Variation

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Our Background

About Us/Our Joint Work

Corpus-based investigations Local coherence: function of the sentence-initial position in German Abstract anaphora (discourse-deictic anaphora) → Annotation of relevant factors

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Our Background

The Annotation Task: Abstract Anaphora

Example Each fall, penguins migrate to Fiji. (Byron 2002)

a. That’s why I’m going there next month.

– FACT

b. It happens just before the eggs hatch.

– EVENT

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Our Background

The Annotation Task: Three Subtasks

Locating the antecedent

Semantic type of the anaphor (‘event’, ‘fact’, . . . )

Semantic type of the antecedent

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Our Background

Task 1: Locating the Antecedent “Namely Test”

Idea: Formulate an appositive clause behind the anaphor, in the form of nämlich dass/ob/wenn . . . ‘namely that/if/when . . . ’ The appositive clause indicates the string of the antecedent

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“Namely Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [39638] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden.

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Our Background

“Namely Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [39638] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies — nämlich dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt — bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden.

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Our Background

“Namely Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [39638] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies — nämlich dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt — bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden.

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Our Background

“Namely Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. [39638] I really do wish that our governments would address this issue unequivocally, also in connection with Moldova, in their frequent contacts with Russia.

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Our Background

“Namely Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. [39638] I really do wish that our governments would address this issue — namely that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation — unequivocally, also in connection with Moldova, in their frequent contacts with Russia.

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Our Background

“Namely Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. [39638] I really do wish that our governments would address this issue — namely that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation — unequivocally, also in connection with Moldova, in their frequent contacts with Russia.

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Our Background

Task 2: Semantic Type of the Anaphor “NP-Replacement Test”

Idea Replace the anaphor by a suitable NP , in the form of demonstrative determiner + head noun List of suitable head nouns: Ereignis, Zustand, Maßnahme, Vorgang, Einschätzung, Notwendigkeit, . . . ‘event, state, measure, process, assessment, necessity, . . . ’ The head noun indicates the semantic type of the anaphor

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Our Background

“NP-Replacement Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [39638] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden.

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Our Background

“NP-Replacement Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [39638] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen diese Tatsache bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden.

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Our Background

“NP-Replacement Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. [39638] I really do wish that our governments would address this unequivocally, also in connection with Moldova, in their frequent contacts with Russia. (Note: the English translation added ‘issue’ already)

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Our Background

“NP-Replacement Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. [39638] I really do wish that our governments would address this issue unequivocally, also in connection with Moldova, in their frequent contacts with Russia. (Note: the English translation added ‘issue’ already)

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Task 3: Semantic Type of the Antecedent “Colon Test”

Idea: Try to express the speaker’s view towards the antecedent’s

content. Is it a fact that the speaker reports? Is it a goal that s/he

wants to be pursued? Is it a problem that s/he wants to point out? Etc. Formulate a suitable phrase that expresses this view and that ends with a colon. Suitable phrases are e.g.

Ich stelle diese Tatsache fest: [antecedent] ‘I state the following fact:’ Ich sehe die folgende(n) Möglichkeit(en): [antecedent] ‘I see the following possibilities:’

The object head noun indicates the semantic type of the antecedent

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Our Background

“Colon Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt.

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Our Background

“Colon Test”: Example (DE)

Example [39637] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. Ich stelle die folgende Tatsache fest: Russland [nutzt] leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung.

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Our Background

“Colon Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation.

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Our Background

“Colon Test”: Example (EN Translation)

Example [39637] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. I state the following fact: Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation

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