Annotating Particle Realization and Ellipsis in Korean
Sun-Hee Lee, Ji Woo Song · 2012
We present a novel scheme for annotating the realization and ellipsis of Korean particles. Annotated data include 100,128 Ecel (a space-based word unit) in spoken and written corpo-ra composed of four different genres in order to evaluate how register variation contributes to Korean particle ellipsis. Identifying the grammatical functions of particles and zero particles is critical for deriving a valid linguis-tic analysis of argument realization, semantic and discourse analysis, and computational processes of parsing. The primary challenge is to design a reliable scheme for classifying par-ticles while making a clear distinction be-tween ellipsis and non-occurrences. We determine in detail issues involving particle annotation and present solutions. In addition to providing a statistical analysis and out-comes, we briefly discuss linguistic factors involving particle ellipsis. 1