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A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators

@article{Schneider2013AFF,
  title={A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators},
  author={Nathan Schneider and Brendan T. O'Connor and Naomi Saphra and David Bamman and Manaal Faruqui and Noah A. Smith and Chris Dyer and Jason Baldridge},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2013},
  volume={abs/1306.2091}
}
We introduce a framework for lightweight dependency syntax annotation. Our formalism builds upon the typical representation for unlabeled dependencies, permitting a simple notation and annotation workflow. Moreover, the formalism encourages annotators to underspecify parts of the syntax if doing so would streamline the annotation process. We demonstrate the e cacy of this annotation on three languages and develop algorithms to evaluate and compare underspecified annotations. 
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