multicastR (version 1.2.0)

mc_referents: Access the Multi-CAST list of referents

Description

mc_referents downloads the lists of referents for all texts in the Multi-CAST collection that have been annotated with the RefIND scheme (Referent Indexing in Natural-language Discourse, Schiborr et al. 2018). The data is downloaded from the servers of University of Bamberg and presented as a data.table.

Usage

mc_referents()

Value

A data.table containing lists of referents for all texts with RefIND annotations in the Multi-CAST collection. The table has the following eight columns:

[, 1] corpus

The name of the corpus.

[, 2] text

The title of the text.

[, 3] refind

The four-digit referent index, unique to each referent in a text.

[, 4] label

The label used for the referent.

[, 5] description

A short description of the referent.

[, 6] class

The semantic class of the referent. Legend: hum = human, anm = animate, inm = inanimate, bdp = body part, mss = mass, loc = location, tme = time, abs = abstract.

[, 7] relations

Relations of the referent to other referents. Legend: < = set member of (partial co-reference), > = includes (split antecedence), M = part-whole.

[, 8] notes

Annotators' notes on the referent and its properties.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  # retrieve and print the Multi-CAST lists of referents
  mc_referents()
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }