K-SNACS: Annotating Korean Adposition Semantics

Jena D. Hwang, Hanwool Choe, Na-Rae Han and Nathan Schneider

The Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2020)
Barcelona, Spain, December 13, 2020

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Abstract

While many languages use adpositions to encode semantic relationships between content words in a sentence (e.g., agentivity or temporality), the details of how adpositions work vary widely across languages with respect to both form and meaning. In this paper, we empirically adapt the SNACS framework (Schneider et al., 2018) to Korean, a language that is typologically distant from English—the language SNACS was based on. We apply the SNACS framework to annotate the highly popular novellaThe Little Prince with semantic supersense labels over allKorean postpositions. Thus, we introduce the first broad-coverage corpus annotated with Korean postposition semantics and provide a detailed analysis of the corpus with an apples-to-apples comparison between Korean and English annotations

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