@incollection{RehbeinRuppenhofer2022, author = {Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer}, title = {Who’s in, who’s out? Predicting the inclusiveness or exclusiveness of personal pronouns in parliamentary debates}, series = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Marseille, France, 20-25 June 2022}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari and Fr{\´e}d{\´e}ric B{\´e}chet and Philippe Blache and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and H{\´e}l{\`e}ne Mazo and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris}, isbn = {979-10-95546-72-6}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111151}, pages = {5849 -- 5858}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This paper presents a compositional annotation scheme to capture the clusivity properties of personal pronouns in context, that is their ability to construct and manage in-groups and out-groups by including/excluding the audience and/or non-speech act participants in reference to groups that also include the speaker. We apply and test our schema on pronoun instances in speeches taken from the German parliament. The speeches cover a time period from 2017-2021 and comprise manual annotations for 3,126 sentences. We achieve high inter-annotator agreement for our new schema, with a Cohen’s κ in the range of 89.7-93.2 and a percentage agreement of > 96\%. Our exploratory analysis of in/exclusive pronoun use in the parliamentary setting provides some face validity for our new schema. Finally, we present baseline experiments for automatically predicting clusivity in political debates, with promising results for many referential constellations, yielding an overall 84.9\% micro F1 for all pronouns.}, language = {en} }