Annotating tense, mood and voice for English, French and German

Delexicalised Multilingual Discourse Segmentation for DISRPT 2021 and Tense, Mood, Voice and Modality Tagging for 11 Languages

This paper describes our participating system for the Shared Task on Discourse Segmentation and Connective Identification across Formalisms and Languages. Key features of the presented approach are the formulation as a c…

Cross-linguistic annotation of narrativity for English/French verb tense disambiguation

This paper presents manual and automatic annotation experiments for a pragmatic verb tense feature (narrativity) in English/French parallel corpora. The feature is considered to play an important role for translating Eng…

English-French Verb Phrase Alignment in Europarl for Tense Translation Modeling

This paper presents a method for verb phrase (VP) alignment in an English-French parallel corpus and its use for improving statistical machine translation (SMT) of verb tenses. The method starts from automatic word align…

Pragmatic information in translation: a corpus-based study of tense and mood in English and German

Grammatical tense and mood are important linguistic phenomena to consider in natural language processing (NLP) research. We consider the correspondence between English and German tense and mood in translation. Human tran…

Clause-Level Tense, Mood, Voice and Modality Tagging for German