Why Is Zero Marking Important in Korean?

This paper argues for the necessity of zero pronoun annotations in Korean treebanks and provides an annotation scheme that can be used to develop a gold standard for testing different anaphor resolution algorithms. Relevant issues of pronoun annotation will be discussed by comparing the Penn Korean Treebank with zero pronoun mark-up and the newly developing Sejong Teebank without zero pronoun mark-up. In addition to supportive evidence for zero marking, necessary morphosyntactic and semantic features will be suggested for zero annotation in Korean treebanks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: IJCNLP
• Authors: Sun-Hee Lee, Donna K. Byron, Seok Bae Jang
• Keywords: IJCNLP 2005, Korean Treebanks, Natural Language Processing, Pronoun Annotation, Pronoun Mark-up