MOMA 2015

MOdels for Modality Annotation - PROGRAMME

Workshop co-located with IWCS 2015 - London, 14 April 2015

9:30-9:45: Get together, introductions, technicalities.

9:45-10:00: Opening.
Paola Pietrandrea and Malvina Nissim

10:00-10:30: Towards a Unified Approach to Modality Annotation in Portuguese.
Luciana Beatrix Ávila, Amália Mendes, and Iris Hendrickx

10:30-11:15: coffee break

11:15-11:45: A hedging annotation scheme focused on epistemic phrases for informal language.
Liliana Mamani Sanchez and Carl Vogel

11:45-12:15: Annotating modals with GraphAnno, a configurable lightweight tool for multi-level annotation
Volker Gast, Lennart Bierkandt, and Christoph Rzymski

12:15-14:00: lunch

14:00-15:00: Invited Talk
Point of View: the Semantics of Perspective and Frame of Reference.
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University

15:00-16:00: Round table: Modality from different perspectives.
Planned contributors:

• Ilse Depraetere, On the distribution of necessity modals in English: towards a multifactorial analysis
• Elisa Ghia, Malvina Nissim, and Paola Pietrandrea, The annotation of epistemic modality in spoken dialogues
• Sapna Negi, Automatic Detection of Subjunctive Mood for Opinion Mining Tasks