Situation Entities

Clause Labeling   Sentence Labeling   Lexical Aspect   Grammatical Aspect

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Description

Linguistic expressions form patterns in discourse. Passages of text can be analyzed in terms of the individuals, concepts, times and situations that they introduce to the discourse. In this work, we focus on situation entities, which are expressed at the clause level. In her work Modes of Discourse (2003, a shorter version can be found here), Carlota Smith distinguishes the situation entity types shown in the image above.

Domains and Genres

  • Has been applied to various genres and domains (MASC and Wikipedia).

References

Annemarie Friedrich. States, events, and generics: computational modeling of situation entity types. PhD Thesis, Saarland University, 2017.