Cross-Lingual Validity of PropBank in the Manual Annotation of French

Methods that re-use existing mono-lingual semantic annotation resources to annotate a new language rely on the hypothesis that the semantic annotation scheme used is cross-lingually valid. We test this hypothesis in an annotation agreement study. We show that the annotation scheme can be applied cross-lingually.

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