Chinese Discourse Annotation Reference Manual

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06037v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:02:42 GMT
• Title: Chinese Discourse Annotation Reference Manual
• Abstract summary: This document provides extensive guidelines and examples for Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) annotation in Mandarin Chinese. We first introduce preprocessing steps to prepare data for RST annotation. Secondly, we discuss syntactic criteria to segment texts into Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs) Finally, we provide examples to define and distinguish discourse relations in different genres.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This document provides extensive guidelines and examples for Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) annotation in Mandarin Chinese. The guideline is divided into three sections. We first introduce preprocessing steps to prepare data for RST annotation. Secondly, we discuss syntactic criteria to segment texts into Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs). Lastly, we provide examples to define and distinguish discourse relations in different genres. We hope that this reference manual can facilitate RST annotations in Chinese and accelerate the development of the RST framework across languages.

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