A Corpus of Scope-disambiguated English Text

Mehdi Manshadi,  James Allen,  Mary Swift
University of Rochester


Abstract

Previous work on quantifier scope annotation focuses on scoping sentences with only two quantified noun phrases (NPs), where the quantifiers are restricted to a predefined list. It also ignores negation, modal/logical operators, and other sentential adverbials. We present a comprehensive scope annotation scheme. We annotate the scope interaction between all scopal terms in the sentence from quantifiers to scopal adverbials, without putting any restriction on the number of scopal terms in a sentence. In addition, all NPs, explicitly quantified or not, with no restriction on the type of quantifier, are investigated for possible scope interactions.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-2025.pdf