Project C11

Disagreements and their limits in discourse structure annotation: From insights to machine learning

PI(s): Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede & Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler

Project C11 investigates Human Label Variation (HLV) in pragmatic annotation, challenging the traditional “single ground truth” assumption, and examining its potential as a meaningful signal for discourse structure. The project will identify causes of both inter- and intra-annotator disagreement, to inform new HLV-enriched discourse models. The project will develop input representations and evaluation schemes for machine learning under HLV, which ultimately may benefit downstream tasks. By addressing the hidden limits of discourse annotation variability, C11 contributes to CRC Cluster C's focus on Hidden Variability.

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