Clause boundary detection

In this step, you will segment the running text into sentences and clauses. Clause boundary detection aims to help you think about the overall structure of the sentence before tagging any engagement values.

Since this is a auxiliary task, we do not really do full-fledged clausal analysis, such as non-finite clauses as modifier of nouns, etc.. Thus, the following guideline is not intended to conduct a full clausal analysis, but abbrebiated version that helps us during the engagement annotation.

Definition of clausal strategies to annotate

The followings are how we will tag on different types of clauses:

Labeldefinition
T-unitA T-unit consists of a MAIN clause and any dependent (i.e., SUBORDINATE or EMBEDDED) clauses attached to it.
MAINAn independent clause, which function as complete unit.
SUBORDINATEA dependent clause attached to a main clause through the use of subordinate conjunctions (e.g., because, although, if, when, as, while, etc.)
EMBEDDEDa type of dependent clause that function as a part of another clause. That is, an embedded clause is included in a subject, object of another clause (i.e., complement clause) or function as an adjective to modify a noun (i.e., relative clause). Inserted clauses, such as parataxis, are also considered as a type of embedded clause.
FRAGMENTAn imcomplete sentential unit. Typically, without any verbs.

When we identify clauses, we do NOT consider punctuation at the end of the clause boundaries as a part of the clause.

Table of Content

The following is the table of content for the manual. The original deanonymized version of the manual has sidebars for annotators to navigate through the contents. This could not be implemented in this anonymized version for review.

  1. Overview of annotation steps
  2. Preliminary concepts
  3. Step 1 — Clause boundary detection
  4. Step 2 — Span detection
  5. Step 3 — Engagement categories
  6. Step 4 — Primary vs Secondary classification
  7. Step 5 — Suppelementary tags
  8. Example with Examples
  9. Recent change
  10. WebAnno related documentation
  11. FAQ
  12. Bibliography

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