@inproceedings{RuppenhoferRehbein2016, author = {Josef Ruppenhofer and Ines Rehbein}, title = {Yes we can!? Annotating the senses of English modal verbs}, series = {LREC 2012, Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-52557}, pages = {1538 -- 1545}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This paper presents an annotation scheme for English modal verbs together with sense-annotated data from the news domain. We describe our annotation scheme and discuss problematic cases for modality annotation based on the inter-annotator agreement during the annotation. Furthermore, we present experiments on automatic sense tagging, showing that our annotations do provide a valuable training resource for NLP systems.}, language = {en} }