Verb and Preposition SRL Annotations for the CHILDES Corpus

Christos Christodoulopoulus, Cindy Fisher, Sandra Franco, Lori Moon, and Dan Roth

This corpus contains gold standard annotations of all verb and preposition senses with corresponding semantic role labels in adult-child dialogues. It is derived from the Adam files in the Brown corpus (Brown 1973) from the CHILDES corpora. The derived corpus contains annotations for every sentence containing a verb or preposition in the corpus. The semantic role labels and senses for verbs follow Propbank guidelines (Kingsbury & Palmer 2002; Gildea & Palmer 2002; Palmer et al. 2005) and those for prepositions follow Srikumar & Roth 2011. The corpus was annotated by two annotators. The overall average kappa score for inter-annotator agreement is 0.92. The derived corpus is available here in XML format

Notes on how the information appears in XML and CHAT format is given here.

If you use this corpus, please cite Moon et al. (submitted 2018), as well as following the citation guidelines for CHILDES and CHAT on TalkBank TalkBank.

References

Lori Moon 22 February 2018