Traditionally, most research in NLP has focused on propositional aspects of meaning. To
truly understand language, however, extra-propositional aspects are equally important …

Texts expressed in legal language are often difficult and time consuming for lawyers to read
through, particularly for the purpose of identifying relevant deontic modalities (obligations …

Language provides speakers with a rich system of modality for expressing thoughts about
events, without being committed to their actual occurrence. Modality is commonly used in the …

This article describes the resource-and system-building efforts of an 8-week Johns Hopkins
University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Summer Camp for Applied …

Identifying negative or speculative narrative fragments from fact is crucial for natural
language processing (NLP) applications. Previous studies on negation and speculation …

This paper presents an annotation scheme for English modal verbs together with sense-
annotated data from the news domain. We describe our annotation scheme and discuss …

In this paper we summarize existing work on the recently introduced task of processing the
scope of negation and modality cues; we analyse the scope model that existing systems can …

Negation, intensifiers, and modality are common linguistic constructions that may modify the
emotional meaning of the text and therefore need to be taken into consideration in sentiment …

El artıculo presenta una propuesta metodológica de carácter mixto—con énfasis en el
aspecto cuantitativo—para la detección y registro de operadores modales. Estas unidades …

This paper presents an annotation scheme for modality that employs a dependency
structure. Events and sources (here, conceivers) are represented as nodes and epistemic …