Automatic annotation of direct reported speech in Arabic and French, according to semantic map of enunciative modalities

Abstract. We present an analysis of the linguistic markers of the enunciative modalities in direct reported speech, in a multilingual framework concerning Arabic and French. Furthermore, we present a platform for automatic annota-tion of semantic relations, based on the Contextual Exploration method. This platform allows the automatic annotation and categorisation of quotational segments in both languages, exploiting a semantic map based on the notion of speaker commitment in enunciation