Crowdsourcing for the identification of event nominals: an experiment

Rachele Sprugnoli*, Alessandro Lenci

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

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Abstract

This paper presents the design and results of a crowdsourcing experiment on the recognition of Italian event nominals. The aim of the experiment was to assess the feasibility of crowdsourcing methods for a complex semantic task such as distinguishing the eventive interpretation of polysemous nominals taking into consideration various types of syntagmatic cues. Details on the theoretical background and on the experiment set up are provided together with the final results in terms of accuracy and inter-annotator agreement. These results are compared with the ones obtained by expert annotators on the same task. The low values in accuracy and Fleiss’ kappa of the crowdsourcing experiment demonstrate that crowdsourcing is not always optimal for complex linguistic tasks. On the other hand, the use of non-expert contributors allows to understand what are the most ambiguous patterns of polysemy and the most useful syntagmatic cues to be used to identify the eventive reading of nominals.
Lingua originaleEnglish
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
Pagine1949-1955
Numero di pagine7
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2014
EventoNinth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) - Reykjavik, Iceland
Durata: 26 mag 201431 mag 2014

Convegno

ConvegnoNinth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
CittàReykjavik, Iceland
Periodo26/5/1431/5/14

Keywords

  • Crowdsourcing, event nominals, corpus annotation, polysemy

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