Extended Abstract

Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time

Authors
  • Dhivya I Chinnappa (University of North Texas)
  • Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas)
  • Eduardo Blanco (University of North Texas)

Abstract

This abstract presents a new corpus for temporally-oriented possession or tracking concrete objects as they change hands over time. We annotate Wikipedia articles for 90 different well-known artifacts (paintings, diamonds, and archaeological artifacts), producing 799 artifact-possessor relations covering 735 unique possessors. Each possession relation is annotated with features capturing duration of possession, as well as the certainty of the possession according to textual evidence. A possession timeline is then produced for each artifact. This corpus provides a foundation for analysis of temporally-oriented possession, as well as work on automatic production of possession timelines.

Keywords: possession, timeline, temporal anchor

How to Cite:

Chinnappa, D. I., Palmer, A. & Blanco, E., (2019) “Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2(1), 302-305. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/ndr3-e038

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01 Jan 2019