Negation in Universal Dependencies

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Negation in Universal Dependencies
Original language description
In this paper we study the representation of negation in UD treebanks. We show that the existing annotations are often inconsistent with the guidelines and that there are ill-motivated differences in annotation of constructions across and even within languages. Moreover, we argue that even if the annotation of the two negation-related features (Polarity=Neg and PronType=Neg) were consistent, these two features would be inadequate for straightforwardly expressing the semantics of negation because they relate to the word level only and hence to form rather than meaning. We therefore propose to add two features, Negated=+ and DoubleNegated=+, which directly encode when a predicate is semantically under negation, and thereby allow a straightforward semantic interpretation of a UD parse in terms of negation.
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Czech description
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies
ISBN
979-8-89176-292-3
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
70-79
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Place of publication
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Event location
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Event date
Jan 1, 2026
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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