A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators
This addresses annotation efficiency for linguists and NLP researchers, though it appears incremental as it builds upon existing unlabeled dependency representations.
The authors tackled the problem of dependency syntax annotation being time-consuming by introducing a framework that allows annotators to underspecify parts of syntax to streamline the process, demonstrating its efficacy on three languages with developed evaluation algorithms.
We introduce a framework for lightweight dependency syntax annotation. Our formalism builds upon the typical representation for unlabeled dependencies, permitting a simple notation and annotation workflow. Moreover, the formalism encourages annotators to underspecify parts of the syntax if doing so would streamline the annotation process. We demonstrate the efficacy of this annotation on three languages and develop algorithms to evaluate and compare underspecified annotations.