Co-referential impossible to make due to sub-structure

[mgeorgescu]

In the example below, we would have to annotate twice the "Philippines" and would lose the co-reference:

U.S. military trainers are aiding officials in the Philippines in attempting to remove Islamic guerrillas from the southern Philippines .

A suggestion to preserve the co-reference would be:

remove-01 ... :arg2 location :mod south :location c

"location" would be the most generic category, but country-region can work just as well.

[nschneid]

Or maybe:

(r / remove-01
   :ARG1 [Islamic guerrillas]
   :ARG2 (s / south
            :location c2))

(If it were "south of the Philippines," I would suggest:

(r / remove-01
   :ARG1 [Islamic guerrillas]
   :ARG2 (s / south
            :op1 c2))

But that would mean outside of the Philippines, to the south.)

[uhermjakob]

I agree that southern Philippines should be interpreted as the south of the Philippines. In Nathan's examples, I prefer :op1 over :location, but we might even consider :part-of.

(r / remove-01
  :ARG1 [Islamic guerrillas]
  :ARG2 (s / south
          :part-of c2))

In cases such as "Northern Ireland", which is a well-established GPE of its own, the whole of "Nothern Ireland" is a NE, but I don't think that applies here to "southern Philippines".

[nschneid]

+1 for :part-of

[mgeorgescu]

Great, we then stick to :part-of Thanks