TUNA Corpus

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title
  • TUNA Corpus
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • TUNA Corpus of Referring Expressions
  • TUNA Reference Corpus
  • TUNA Corpus Ver. 1.0
creator
  • developer TUNA (Towards a UNified Algorithm) project (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/tuna/)
  • developer Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/)
  • developer Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/)
  • developer University of Tilburg (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/)
  • researcher Kees van Deemter, Computing Science Department, Meston Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen
subject
  • semantically transparent corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • semantics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Multimodal/Multimedia Resources
    TUNA (Towards a UNified Algorithm for the generation of referring expressions) is a research project funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

    The TUNA Corpus of Referring Expressions is built with the contributions from 50 native or fluent speakers of English and it contains about 2000 descriptions (referring expressions).

    Participants described objects (targets) in visual domains by typing and submitting referring expressions that distingued them from other objects that were shown simultaneously (distractors): Each experimental trial consisted of one (singular) or two (plural) targets, plus six distractors. Each description is richly annotated with semantic information, including information about all the other objects that the human authors saw.

    The TUNA Corpus was annotated with the main objective to evaluate the output of algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions (GRE) with Natural Language Generation, with particular regard for the semantic content of the expressions.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
contributor
  • sponsor Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native fluent English speakers
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
  • 2003-10-00 2007-02-00
date.issued
  • 2008-09-30
date.modified
  • 2012-05-23
type
  • Text
  • Image
type.discourseType
  • report
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis For designing and implementing a new algorithm for the generation of referring expressions (GRE).
type.style
  • written description of an object
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
  • [Nodes]:
    : A root node. attribute: ID. One TRIAL node has a DOMAIN node, a STRING-DESCRIPTION node, a DESCRIPTION node and an ATTRIBUTE-SET node.
    : Representation of entities and their properties. Has ENTITY and ATTRIBUTE nodes.
    : A subdomain of a DOMAIN node.
    : A child node of an ENTITY node. Represents properties of the entity in attribute-value notation.
    : The string describing the target referent in the domain
    : The string in STRING-DESCRIPTION, where the relevant substrings are annotated with attributes in ATTRIBUTE-SET
    : The set of domain attributes which are true of the referent,and which are included in the description

    Thus, a corpus instance should be constructed as follows:


    representation of entities and their properties


    the string describing the target referent in the domain


    the string in STRING-DESCRIPTION, where the relevant substrings are annotatedwith attributes in ATTRIBUTE-SET


    the set of domain attributes which are true of the referent, and which are included in the description



    The rest is omitted.

    http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?action=download&filename=format.pdf
    Gatt, A., van der Sluis, I., and van Deemter, K. (2008). XML Format Guidelines for the TUNA Corpus. Technical Report, University of Aberdeen
  • [Attributes and values of the ATTRIBUTE (furniture/household domain)]:
    [Attribute]/[Type]/[Possible values]:
    type/literal/chair, sofa, desk, fan
    colour/literal/blue, red, green, grey
    size/literal/large, small
    orientation/literal/left, right, front, back
    x-dimension (column number)/gradable/1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    y-dimension (row number)/gradable/1, 2, 3
    other
    [Attributes and values of the ATTRIBUTE (people domain)]:
    type/literal/person
    orientation/literal/front, left, right
    age/literal/young, old

    The rest is omitted.

    http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?action=download&filename=format.pdf
    Gatt, A., van der Sluis, I., and van Deemter, K. (2008). XML Format Guidelines for the TUNA Corpus. Technical Report, University of Aberdeen
type.sample
format.extent
  • Number of tokens : 2,000 descriptions
format.medium
format.encoding
format.markup
  • XML
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • English
language.area
  • Europe
  • America
  • Oceania
  • Africa
relation
  • isReferencedBy van Deemter, K., van der Sluis, I. & Gatt, A. (2006). "Building a semantically transparent corpus for the generation of referring expressions". Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (Special Session on Data Sharing and Evaluation), INLG-06.(http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/tuna/corpus/pub/greDataSharingFinal.pdf)
  • isReferencedBy "The TUNA final project report" (May 2007)(http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/tuna/pubs/TUNA-final-report.pdf)
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • 2003-10-00 - 2007-02-00
coverage.spacial
  • UK, Europe
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