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New NE types: ideology and sport? #49

Closed mgeorgescu closed 11 years ago

mgeorgescu commented 11 years ago
  1. NE: "ideology"

In the example "Zionist and American plans to eliminate the Islamic Movement", we did not find a good fit in terms of NE type and currently annotated it as:

(t / thing :name (n2 / name :op1 "Zionism"))

However, should we consider adding a new NE type: movement/ideology, and in this case should it cover concepts like: communism, democracy, socialist, etc.

Or should we annotate them as a common noun?

  1. "sport"

We came across examples like: "tai chi , and meihuazhuang, drunken fist" which are different types of martial arts and we did not find a good NE type. The "sport" NE type could cover most types of sports activities.

uhermjakob commented 11 years ago

Sports

We discussed this at the AMR workshop today and decided that sports such as soccer or tai chi are common nouns (as opposed to named entities). Personally, I would prefer not to decompose tai chi but rather render it as tai-chi.

Ideology

Personally, I would treat Zionism, Marxism etc. as common nouns as well, in line with communism and liberalism. I think Marxism is only capitalized because it is derived from the named entity Marx.

In the specific example you mention above, Zionist actually just means Israeli, a term avoided by groups such as Hamas and its Al-Qassam Brigades mentioned earlier in the sentence that you quote from. They never use the term Israel and its derivatives because they deny Israel's right to exist.

mgeorgescu commented 11 years ago

We'll then stick to annotating them as common nouns.