Reported Speech Tagger
Minding the Source: Automatic Tagging of Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles
Submitted by rene on Sat, 2010-07-31 14:01Reported Speech Tagger
Reported speech in the form of direct and indirect reported speech is an important indicator of evidentiality in traditional newspaper texts, but also increasingly in the new media that rely heavily on citation and quotation of previous postings, as for instance in blogs or newsgroups. We developed an NLP component in form of a GATE resource that can automatically detect and tag reported speech constructs, in particular the source, reporting verb and content. This is intended as a first module for more sophisticated representation and reasoning with attributed information, such as belief reasoning based on nested belief structures.