RefIND (Referent Indexing in Natural-Language Discourse) is a set of corpus annotation conventions designed for the purpose of addressing research questions in the area of reference and discourse structure. RefIND annotations target the linguistic expressions of abstract discourse referents and consist primarily of multi-digit numerical glosses that uniquely identify each occurrence of a discourse referent in a given text. RefIND annotations are intended to complement and extend other annotation schemata such as GRAID (Haig & Schnell 2014). See the Multi-CAST collection of corpora (Haig & Schnell 2015) for an example.

This archive contains version 1.1 of the RefIND annotation guidelines, originally published in March 2018.

 

Citation

Schiborr, N. N. & Schnell, Stefan & Thiele, Hanna. 2018. RefIND — Referent indexing in natural-language discourse. Annotation guidelines v1.1. Bamberg: University of Bamberg. (DOI: 10.48564/unibafd-bantm-d9d13)