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Detecting Minimal Semantic Units and Their Meanings (DiMSUM)

Identification of multiword expression components in text through span annotation, detecting minimal semantic units that function as single meaning-bearing elements. Based on SemEval-2016 Task 10.

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Configuration Fileconfig.yaml

# Detecting Minimal Semantic Units and Their Meanings (DiMSUM)
# Based on Schneider et al., SemEval 2016
# Paper: https://aclanthology.org/S16-1084/
# Dataset: https://dimsum16.github.io/
#
# This task asks annotators to identify multiword expression (MWE)
# components in text. MWEs are sequences of words that function together
# as a single semantic unit (e.g., "kick the bucket", "in spite of",
# "hot dog").
#
# Span Labels:
# - MWE Component: A word that is part of a multiword expression

annotation_task_name: "Detecting Minimal Semantic Units (DiMSUM)"
task_dir: "."

data_files:
  - sample-data.json

item_properties:
  id_key: "id"
  text_key: "text"

output_annotation_dir: "annotation_output/"
output_annotation_format: "json"

port: 8000
server_name: localhost

annotation_schemes:
  - annotation_type: span
    name: mwe_components
    description: "Highlight all words that are components of multiword expressions."
    labels:
      - "MWE Component"

annotation_instructions: |
  You will be shown a sentence. Your task is to identify all multiword expressions
  (MWEs) by highlighting their component words. MWEs are sequences of words that
  function together as a single meaning unit, including:
  - Idioms: "kick the bucket", "break the ice"
  - Phrasal verbs: "give up", "look forward to"
  - Compound nouns: "hot dog", "ice cream"
  - Fixed phrases: "in spite of", "as well as"
  Highlight all words that belong to any MWE in the sentence.

html_layout: |
  <div style="padding: 15px; max-width: 800px; margin: auto;">
    <div style="background: #f0f9ff; border: 1px solid #bae6fd; border-radius: 8px; padding: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">
      <strong style="color: #0369a1;">Sentence:</strong>
      <p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 8px 0 0 0;">{{text}}</p>
    </div>
  </div>

allow_all_users: true
instances_per_annotator: 50
annotation_per_instance: 2
allow_skip: true
skip_reason_required: false

Sample Datasample-data.json

[
  {
    "id": "mwe_001",
    "text": "She decided to give up smoking after the doctor's warning about her health."
  },
  {
    "id": "mwe_002",
    "text": "The ice cream shop on Main Street is open until 10 PM every night."
  }
]

// ... and 8 more items

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cd potato-showcase/semeval/2016/task10-minimal-semantic-units
potato start config.yaml

Details

Annotation Types

span

Domain

SemEvalNLPMultiword ExpressionsLexical Semantics

Use Cases

MWE DetectionCompositional SemanticsLexical Analysis

Tags

semevalsemeval-2016shared-taskmwemultiword-expressionsdimsumsemantic-units

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