Animacy encoding in English
Annie Zaenen, Jean Carletta, Gregory Garretson, Joan W. Bresnan, Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden, Tatiana Gennadievna Nikitina, Margaret C. O’Connor, Tom Wasow · 2004
We report on two recent medium-scale initiatives annotating present day English corpora for animacy distinctions. We discuss the relevance of animacy for computational linguistics, specifically generation, the annotation categories used in the two studies and the interannotator reliability for one of the studies.