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Minding the Source: Automatic Tagging of Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008)
Abstract
Reported speech in the form of direct and indirect reported speech is an important indicator of evidentiality in traditional newspaper texts, but also increasingly in the new media that rely heavily on citation and quotation of previous postings, as for instance in blogs or newsgroups. This paper details the basic processing steps for reported speech analysis and reports on performance of an implementation in form of a GATE resource.