Proposal: Eliminate standard NE type public-institution

[uhermjakob]

Based on an analysis of NE types in our AMR release corpus, I propose to eliminate our standard NE type public-institution. It has not been used much in the first place, and when it has been used, it has been used very inconsistently. Some of the NEs marked as public-institution were courts (e.g. Old Bailey), but those are more appropriately annotated as government-organization since the courts are part of the judicial branch of government.

The one sole annotation with public-institution that seemed somewhat appropriate was for a prison, but then again, other prisons were annotated differently.

So I propose to fully eliminate the standard NE type public-institution. Most entities previously annotated as public-institution should be government-organization and prisons would be annotated as a facility (as we can't fully rely on them being run by the government any more, at least in the US).

In fact, I already took the liberty to do just that for the AMRs in the release under way.

[nschneid]

Sounds good to me.

[uhermjakob]

Final disposition: NE type eliminated (at the AMR phone meeting on Febr. 4, 2014).