Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Michael Bloodgood, Mona Diab, Bonnie Dorr, Lori Levin, Christine D. Piatko, Owen Rambow, Benjamin Van Durme
Published 2015-03-04Version 1
We explore training an automatic modality tagger. Modality is the attitude that a speaker might have toward an event or state. One of the main hurdles for training a linguistic tagger is gathering training data. This is particularly problematic for training a tagger for modality because modality triggers are sparse for the overwhelming majority of sentences. We investigate an approach to automatically training a modality tagger where we first gathered sentences based on a high-recall simple rule-based modality tagger and then provided these sentences to Mechanical Turk annotators for further annotation. We used the resulting set of training data to train a precise modality tagger using a multi-class SVM that delivers good performance.
Comments: 8 pages, 6 tables; appeared in Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics, July 2012; In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics, pages 57-64, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics
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