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Yes we can!? Annotating English modal verbs
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)
Abstract
This paper presents an annotation scheme for English modal verbs together with sense-annotated data from the news domain. We describe our annotation scheme and discuss problematic cases for modality annotation based on the inter-annotator agreement during the annotation. Furthermore, we present experiments on automatic sense tagging, showing that our annotations do provide a valuable training resource for NLP systems.