Markus Egg


2023

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A corpus of metaphors as register markers
Markus Egg | Valia Kordoni
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023

The paper presents our work on corpus annotationfor metaphor in German. Metaphors denoteentities that are similar to their literal referent,e.g., when *Licht* ‘light’ is used in the senseof ‘hope’. We are interested in the relation betweenmetaphor and register, hence, the corpusincludes material from different registers. We focussed on metaphors that can serve asregister markers and can also be reliably indentifiedfor annotation. Our results show hugedifferences between registers in metaphor usage,which we interpret in terms of specificproperties of the registers.

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Testing the Continuity Hypothesis: A decompositional approach
Debopam Das | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

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The RST Continuity Corpus
Debopam Das | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)

We present the RST Continuity Corpus (RST-CC), a corpus of discourse relations annotated for continuity dimensions. Continuity or discontinuity (maintaining or shifting deictic centres across discourse segments) is an important property of discourse relations, but the two are correlated in greatly varying ways. To analyse this correlation, the relations in the RST-CC are annotated using operationalised versions of Givón’s (1993) continuity dimensions. We also report on the inter-annotator agreement, and discuss recurrent annotation issues. First results show substantial variation of continuity dimensions within and across relation types.

2022

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Metaphor annotation for German
Markus Egg | Valia Kordoni
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

The paper presents current work on a German corpus annotated for metaphor. Metaphors denote entities or situations that are in some sense similar to the literal referent, e.g., when “Handschrift” ‘signature’ is used in the sense of ‘distinguishing mark’ or the suppression of hopes is introduced by the verb “verschütten” ‘bury’. The corpus is part of a project on register, hence, includes material from different registers that represent register variation along a number of important dimensions, but we believe that it is of interest to research on metaphor in general. The corpus extends previous annotation initiatives in that it not only annotates the metaphoric expressions themselves but also their respective relevant contexts that trigger a metaphorical interpretation of the expressions. For the corpus, we developed extended annotation guidelines, which specifically focus not only on the identification of these metaphoric contexts but also analyse in detail specific linguistic challenges for metaphor annotation that emerge due to the grammar of German.

2019

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Annotation and Automatic Classification of Aspectual Categories
Markus Egg | Helena Prepens | Will Roberts
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

We present the first annotated resource for the aspectual classification of German verb tokens in their clausal context. We use aspectual features compatible with the plurality of aspectual classifications in previous work and treat aspectual ambiguity systematically. We evaluate our corpus by using it to train supervised classifiers to automatically assign aspectual categories to verbs in context, permitting favourable comparisons to previous work.

2018

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A Large Automatically-Acquired All-Words List of Multiword Expressions Scored for Compositionality
Will Roberts | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

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A Multilingual Wikified Data Set of Educational Material
Iris Hendrickx | Eirini Takoulidou | Thanasis Naskos | Katia Lida Kermanidis | Vilelmini Sosoni | Hugo de Vos | Maria Stasimioti | Menno van Zaanen | Panayota Georgakopoulou | Valia Kordoni | Maja Popovic | Markus Egg | Antal van den Bosch
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

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Translation Crowdsourcing: Creating a Multilingual Corpus of Online Educational Content
Vilelmini Sosoni | Katia Lida Kermanidis | Maria Stasimioti | Thanasis Naskos | Eirini Takoulidou | Menno van Zaanen | Sheila Castilho | Panayota Georgakopoulou | Valia Kordoni | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

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Improving Machine Translation of Educational Content via Crowdsourcing
Maximiliana Behnke | Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone | Rico Sennrich | Vilelmini Sosoni | Thanasis Naskos | Eirini Takoulidou | Maria Stasimioti | Menno van Zaanen | Sheila Castilho | Federico Gaspari | Panayota Georgakopoulou | Valia Kordoni | Markus Egg | Katia Lida Kermanidis
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

2016

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Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
Valia Kordoni | Kostadin Cholakov | Markus Egg | Stella Markantonatou | Preslav Nakov
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions

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TraMOOC (Translation for Massive Open Online Courses): providing reliable MT for MOOCs
Valia Kordoni | Lexi Birch | Ioana Buliga | Kostadin Cholakov | Markus Egg | Federico Gaspari | Yota Georgakopolou | Maria Gialama | Iris Hendrickx | Mitja Jermol | Katia Kermanidis | Joss Moorkens | Davor Orlic | Michael Papadopoulos | Maja Popović | Rico Sennrich | Vilelmini Sosoni | Dimitrios Tsoumakos | Antal van den Bosch | Menno van Zaanen | Andy Way
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation: Projects/Products

2015

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TraMOOC: Translation for Massive Open Online Courses
Valia Kordoni | Kostadin Cholakov | Markus Egg | Andy Way | Lexi Birch | Katia Kermanidis | Vilelmini Sosoni | Dimitrios Tsoumakos | Antal van den Bosch | Iris Hendrickx | Michael Papadopoulos | Panayota Georgakopoulou | Maria Gialama | Menno van Zaanen | Ioana Buliga | Mitja Jermol | Davor Orlic
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

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TraMOOC: Translation for Massive Open Online Courses
Valia Kordoni | Kostadin Cholakov | Markus Egg | Andy Way | Lexi Birch | Katia Kermanidis | Vilelmini Sosoni | Dimitrios Tsoumakos | Antal van den Bosch | Iris Hendrickx | Michael Papadopoulos | Panayota Georgakopoulou | Maria Gialama | Menno van Zaanen | Ioana Buliga | Mitja Jermol | Davor Orlic
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

2014

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Subcategorisation Acquisition from Raw Text for a Free Word-Order Language
Will Roberts | Markus Egg | Valia Kordoni
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE)
Valia Kordoni | Markus Egg | Agata Savary | Eric Wehrli | Stefan Evert
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE)

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A Comparison of Selectional Preference Models for Automatic Verb Classification
Will Roberts | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

2013

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Robust Automated Natural Language Processing with Multiword Expressions and Collocations
Valia Kordoni | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Tutorials)

2012

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Multi-Layer Discourse Annotation of a Dutch Text Corpus
Gisela Redeker | Ildikó Berzlánovich | Nynke van der Vliet | Gosse Bouma | Markus Egg
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

We have compiled a corpus of 80 Dutch texts from expository and persuasive genres, which we annotated for rhetorical and genre-specific discourse structure, and lexical cohesion with the goal of creating a gold standard for further research. The annota¬tions are based on a segmentation of the text in elementary discourse units that takes into account cues from syntax and punctuation. During the labor-intensive discourse-structure annotation (RST analysis), we took great care to thoroughly reconcile the initial analyses. That process and the availability of two independent initial analyses for each text allows us to analyze our disagreements and to assess the confusability of RST relations, and thereby improve the annotation guidelines and gather evidence for the classification of these relations into larger groups. We are using this resource for corpus-based studies of discourse relations, discourse markers, cohesion, and genre differences, e.g., the question of how discourse structure and lexical cohesion interact for different genres in the overall organization of texts. We are also exploring automatic text segmentation and semi-automatic discourse annotation.

2010

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How Complex is Discourse Structure?
Markus Egg | Gisela Redeker
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

This paper contributes to the question of which degree of complexity is called for in representations of discourse structure. We review recent claims that tree structures do not suffice as a model for discourse structure, with a focus on the work done on the Discourse Graphbank (DGB) of Wolf and Gibson (2005, 2006). We will show that much of the additional complexity in the DGB is not inherent in the data, but due to specific design choices that underlie W&G’s annotation. Three kinds of configuration are identified whose DGB analysis violates tree-structure constraints, but for which an analysis in terms of tree structures is possible, viz., crossed dependencies that are eventually based on lexical or referential overlap, multiple-parent structures that could be handled in terms of Marcu’s (1996) Nuclearity Principle, and potential list structures, in which whole lists of segments are related to a preceding segment in the same way. We also discuss the recent results which Lee et al. (2008) adduce as evidence for a complexity of discourse structure that cannot be handled in terms of tree structures.

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A unified account of the semantics of discourse particles
Markus Egg
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

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Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use
Bonnie Webber | Markus Egg | Valia Kordoni
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

2008

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Book Reviews: A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication by Roland Hausser
Markus Egg
Computational Linguistics, Volume 34, Number 2, June 2008 - Special Issue on Semantic Role Labeling

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Efficient Processing of Underspecified Discourse Representations
Michaela Regneri | Markus Egg | Alexander Koller
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers

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Underspecified Modelling of Complex Discourse Constraints
Markus Egg | Michaela Regneri
Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters

1998

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Constraints over Lambda-Structures in Semantic Underspecification
Markus Egg | Joachim Niehren | Peter Ruhrberg | Feiyu Xu
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 1

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Constraints over Lambda-Structures in Semantic Underspecification
Markus Egg | Joachim Niehren | Peter Ruhrberg | Feiyu Xu
COLING 1998 Volume 1: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics