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In this paper, a methodology of semantic annotation of the LingvoSemantic corpus is presented. Semantic annotation is usually a time consuming and expensive process. We thus developed a methodology that significantly reduces the demands of the process. The methodology consists of a set of techniques and computer tools designed to simplify the process as much as possible. We claim that in this way it is possible to obtain sufficient amount of annotated data in a reasonable time frame. The LingvoSemantic project focuses on semantic analysis of user questions to an Internet information retrieval system. The semantic representation approach is based on abstract semantic annotation methodology. However, we advanced the annotation process. The bootstrapping method was used during the corpus annotation. The resulting annotated corpus consists of 20292 annotated sentences. In comparison to the straight-forward style of annotation, our approach significantly improved the efficiency of the annotation. The results, as well as a set of recommendations for creating the annotated data, are presented at the end of the paper.
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Habernal, I., Konopík, M. (2009). Semantic Annotation for the LingvoSemantics Project. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_42
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