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This paper reports an effort to annotate modality in Chinese news articles. We introduce the annotation scheme for the modality that employs a dependency structure, which is based on Meagan Vigus (2019) and “UMR Aspect, Modal Strength, and Polarity Annotation Guidelines”. We test the cross-linguistic adaptability of the schema we adopt, present the preliminary results of the first pass, and analyze the types of disagreement.
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Liu, Z., Xue, N. (2023). A Dependency Structure Annotation for Modality in Chinese News Articles. In: Su, Q., Xu, G., Yang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13496. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_12
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