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The paper describes an annotation scheme for English based on Panini’s concept of karakas. We describe how the scheme handles certain constructions in English. By extending the karaka scheme for a fixed word order language, we hope to bring out its advantages as a concept that incorporates some ‘local semantics’. Our comparison with PTB-II and PropBank brings out its intermediary status between a morpho-syntactic and semantic level. Further work can show how this could benefit tasks like semantic role labeling and automatic conversion of existing English treebanks into this scheme.
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Vaidya, A., Husain, S., Mannem, P., Sharma, D.M. (2009). A Karaka Based Annotation Scheme for English. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_4
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