Toward Fine-grained Annotation of Modality in Text
Aynat Rubinstein, Hillary Harner, Elizabeth Krawczyk, D Simonson, Graham Katz, Paul Pörtner · 2013
We present a linguistically-informed schema for annotating modal expressions and describe its application to a subset of the MPQA corpus of English texts (Wiebe et al. 2005). The annotation is fine-grained in two respects: (i) in the range of expressions that are defined as modal targets and (ii) in the amount of information that is annotated for each target expression. We use inter-annotator reliability results to support a two-way distinction between priority and nonpriority modality types. 1