The Pilot Corpus of the English Semantic Sketches

The paper is devoted to the creation of the semantic sketches for English verbs. The pilot corpus consists of the English-Russian sketch pairs and is aimed to show what kind of contrastive studies the sketches help to conduct. Special attention is paid to the cross-language differences between the sketches with similar semantics. Moreover, we discuss the process of building a semantic sketch, and analyse the mistakes that could give insight to the linguistic nature of sketches.

RuCoCo: a new Russian corpus with coreference annotation

We present a new corpus with coreference annotation, Russian Coreference Corpus (RuCoCo). The goal of RuCoCo is to obtain a large number of annotated texts while maintaining high inter-annotator agreement. RuCoCo contains news texts in Russian, part of which were annotated from scratch, and for the rest the machine-generated annotations were refined by human annotators. The size of our corpus is one million words and around 150,000 mentions. We make the corpus publicly available.