Annotation of Japanese Discourse Relations Focusing on Concessive Inferences
Ai Kubota, Takuma Sato, Takayuki Amamoto, Ryota Akiyoshi, Koji Mineshima
Abstract
In this study, we focus on the inference presupposed in the concessive discourse relation and present the discourse relation annotation for the Japanese connectives ‘nagara’ and ‘tsutsu’, both of which have two usages: Synchronous and Concession, just like English while. We also present the annotation for ‘tokorode’, which is ambiguous in three ways: Temporal, Location, and Concession. While corpora containing concessive discourse relations already exist, the distinctive feature of our study is that it aims to identify the concessive inferential relations by writing out the implicit presupposed inferences. In this paper, we report on the annotation methodology and its results, as well as the characteristics of concession that became apparent during annotation.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{kubota-etal-2024-annotation,
title = "Annotation of {J}apanese Discourse Relations Focusing on Concessive Inferences",
author = "Kubota, Ai and
Sato, Takuma and
Amamoto, Takayuki and
Akiyoshi, Ryota and
Mineshima, Koji",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.109/",
pages = "1215--1224"
}