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This paper is concerned with relative constructions in non-standard varieties of European languages, which will be analyzed on the basis of three typological parameters (word order, relative element, syntactic role of the relativized item). The validity of claims raised in studies on the areal distribution of relative constructions in Europe will be checked against the results of the analysis, so as to ascertain whether they still hold when non-standard varieties are examined.

Corpora with high-quality linguistic annotations are an essential component in many NLP applications and a valuable resource for linguistic research. For obtaining these annotations, a large amount of manual effort is needed, making the creation of these resources time-consuming and costly. One attempt to speed up the annotation process is to use supervised machine-learning systems to automatically assign (possibly erroneous) labels to the data and ask human annotators to correct them where necessary. However, it is not clear to what extent these automatic pre-annotations are successful in reducing human annotation effort, and what impact they have on the quality of the resulting resource. In this article, we present the results of an experiment in which we assess the usefulness of partial semi-automatic annotation for frame labeling. We investigate the impact of automatic pre-annotation of differing quality on annotation time, consistency and accuracy. While we found no conclusive evidence that it can speed up human annotation, we found that automatic pre-annotation does increase its overall quality.

In diesem Beitrag soll eine dynamische Zeitlogik skizziert werden, die eine Analyse der deutschen Tempora über den Satzrahmen hinaus ermöglicht. Basis dieser Darstellung soll eine Reichenbachianische Analyse der Deutschen Tempora sein. Zunächst wird eine Sprache ADETAL angegeben (Adverbial erweiterte temporale Aussagenlogik). Für diese Sprache wird eine Semantik im Stile Reichenbachs formuliert. Diese erweist sich als adäquat zur Beschreibung einzelner Sätze. Um auch noch die temporale Struktur von Sätzen zu beschreiben, werden wir eine dynamische Perspektive entwickeln, indem wir Ideen aus der Dynamischen Prädikatenlogik von Groenendijk/Stokhof aufgreifen. Schließlich soll das System bei der Analyse eines Textausschnitts auf die Probe gestellt werden.