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  <Title>The NomBank Project: An Interim Report</Title>
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8 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper outlines our current efforts to produce Nom-Bank, annotation of the argument structure for most common nouns in the Penn Treebank II corpus. This is part of a larger effort to produce more detailed annotation of the Penn Treebank. Annotation for NomBank is progressing quickly. We began with a single annotator while we worked on setting the task and have ramped up to four annotators. We continue to work on various quality control procedures which we outline above. In the near future, we intend to create an automatic annotation program to be used both as a preprocessor for manual annotation and as a supplement to error detection.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The argument structure of NPs has been less studied both in theoretical and computational linguistics, than the argument structure of verbs. As with our work on NOMLEX, we are hoping that NomBank will substantially contribute to improving the NLP community's ability to understand and process noun argument structure.</Paragraph>
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