BOLT Egyptian Arabic Co-reference -- Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational Telephone Speech

Item Name: BOLT Egyptian Arabic Co-reference -- Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational Telephone Speech
Author(s): Nitin Agarwal, Michelle Francini, Michelle Kappler, Linnea Micciulla, Sameer Pradhan, Lance Ramshaw
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2021T14
ISBN: 1-58563-969-9
ISLRN: 176-795-802-758-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/4z7r-vh07
Release Date: July 15, 2021
Member Year(s): 2021
DCMI Type(s): Text
Data Source(s): discussion forum, telephone conversations, text chat conversations
Project(s): BOLT
Application(s): coreference resolution
Language(s): Egyptian Arabic
Language ID(s): arz
License(s): LDC User Agreement for Non-Members
Online Documentation: LDC2021T14 Documents
Licensing Instructions: Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation: Agarwal, Nitin, et al. BOLT Egyptian Arabic Co-reference -- Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational Telephone Speech LDC2021T14. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2021.
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Introduction

BOLT Egyptian Arabic Co-reference -- Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational Telephone Speech was developed by Raytheon BBN Technologies and consists of co-reference annotation on Egyptian Arabic discussion forum (DF), SMS/Chat and conversational telephone speech (CTS).

The DARPA BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation) program developed machine translation and information retrieval for less formal genres, focusing particularly on user-generated content. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) supported the BOLT program by collecting informal data sources -- discussion forums, text messaging and chat -- in Chinese, Egyptian Arabic and English. The collected data was translated and annotated for various tasks including word alignment, treebanking, propbanking and co-reference.

Data

DF data was collected from the web using a combination of manual and automatic processes. SMS/Chat material was donated or collected via live platforms. CTS data was taken from LDC's Egyptian Arabic CALLHOME and CALLFRIEND telephone collections.

Co-reference annotation aims to fill in all of the connections between specific mentions in the text that refer to the same entities and events in the discourse context. BOLT co-reference annotation was performed on BOLT treebank annotation. It covers noun phrases (including proper nouns, nominals, pronouns and null arguments), possessives, proper noun pre-modifiers and verbs.

Annotation files are presented in UTF-8 encoded XML format.

Sponsorship

This material is based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR0011-11-C-0145. The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.

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