HR10: China Hits Back at U.S. Human Rights Report.

BEIJING - China said on Tuesday a U.S. State Department report that accused Beijing of suppressing religious freedom was full of lies and urged Washington not to hold double standard in the war on terrorism. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan criticized the United States for turning a blind eye to its own human rights abuses and said Muslim separatists in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang were legitimate targets of the campaign against terror. "This report is full of fabrications," he said. "It confuses right and wrong and attacks China's legal system, ethnic policies and human rights conditions." "The Chinese people and government are strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to it." "We think this is an example of the United States using human rights as a pretext to interfere in other countries' internal affairs," Kong said.

$\parbox{5in}{BEIJING {}-{}- (1)China (2)said on Tuesday (4)a U.S. St... ...nd (6)urged Washington (7)not to hold double standard in the war on terrorism.}$

(writer, OSE=implicit):

This is the default, no changes to make in GATE

(writer, China; DSE=said; intensity=high; neg. sentiment->US report; ES=full of lies):

(1) Tag 'China' as an agent
(2) Tag 'said' as an DSE
(3) Tag 'full of lies' as expressive-subjectivity

Realize that there is a negative attitude being expressed toward the U.S. State Department report and

(4) Tag 'a U.S. State Department report' as a target
(5) Tag 'was full of lies' as an attitude

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

Agent: China

id=China
nested-source=w,China

DSE: said

nested-source=w,China
intensity=high (because of 'full of lies')
expression-intensity=neutral ('said' is neutral)
attitude-link=fulloflies

Expressive-subjectivity: full of lies

nested-source=w,China
polarity=negative
intensity=high

Target: a U.S. State Department report

id=report

Attitude: was full of lies

id=fulloflies
attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target=report

(writer, China; DSE=urged, intensity=medium; ES=not to hold double standard; arguing-neg='urged Washington not to hold double standard in the war on terrorism'; target=Washington; sentiment-pos=urged; target='Washington not to hold double standard in the war on terrorism')

(6) Tag 'urged' as a DSE
(7) Tag 'hold double standard' as expressive-subjectivity

Fill in the following features for the above (6,7) annotations.

DSE: urged

nested-source=w,China
intensity=medium
expression-intensity=medium

Expressive-subjectivity: hold double standard

nested-source=w,China
polarity=negative
intensity=medium

This completes the annotation for everything at the level of w,China.

(writer, China, US report; DSE=accused, intensity=medium; sentiment-neg; target=China)

(8) Tag 'accused' as an DSE
(8) Tag 'accused' as an attitude
(9) Tag 'Beijing' as a target
(10) Tag 'a U.S. State Department report' as agent

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

agent: a U.S. State Department report

nested-source=w,China,report

DSE: accused

nested-source=w,China,report
expression-intensity=medium
intensity=medium
polarity=negative
attitude-link=accusation

Attitude: accused

attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target-link=china1
intensity=medium
id=accusation

Target: Beijing

id=china1

$\parbox{5in}{(10)Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan (11)criticized... ... Xinjiang (18)were (15)legitimate targets of the (16)campaign against terror. }$

(writer, OSE=implicit)

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(writer, Kong; DSE=criticized; intensity=medium; neg-sentiment->United States; ES=turning a blind eye)

(10) Tag 'Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan' as an agent
(11) Tag 'criticized' as a DSE
(11) Tag 'criticized the United States for turning a blind eye' as an attitude
(12) Tag 'the United States' as an target
(13) Tag 'turning a blind eye' as expressive-subjectivity

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

Agent: Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan

id=Kong
nested-source=w,Kong

DSE: criticized

nested-source=w,Kong
attitude-link=criticism
intensity=medium
expression-intensity=medium

Attitude: criticized the United States for turning a blind eye

id=criticism
attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target-link=US

Target: the United States

id=US

Expressive-subjectivity: turning a blind eye

nested-source=w,Kong
polarity=negative
intensity=medium

(writer, Kong; DSE=said; intensity=medium; ES='legitimate campaign against terror')

(14) Tag 'said' as a DSE
(15) Tag 'legitimate' as expressive-subjectivity
(16) Tag 'campaign against terror' as expressive-subjectivity (17) Tag 'Muslim separatists in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang' as target
(18) Tag 'were legitimate targets of the campaign against terror' as an attitude
Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

DSE: said

nested-source=w,Kong
intensity=medium
expression-intensity=neutral
attitude-link=legitimate_targets

Expressive-subjectivity: legitimate

nested-source=w,Kong
intensity=medium

Expressive-subjectivity: campaign against terror

nested-source=w,Kong
intensity=high

Attitude: were legitimate targets of the campaign against terror

id=legitimate_targets
attitude-type=arguing-pos
intensity=medium
target-link=separatists

Target: Muslim separatists in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang

id=separatists

(writer, OSE=implicit)

This is the default, no changes

(writer, Kong; DSE=said; intensity=low, sentiment-neg->report, ES=full of fabrications)

(19) Tag 'he' as an agent
(20) Tag 'said' as a DSE
(21) Tag 'full of fabrications' as expressive-subjectivity
(22) Tag 'This report' as an agent
(23) Tag 'is full of fabrications' as an attitude

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

Agent: he

nested-source=w,Kong

DSE: said

nested-source=w,Kong
intensity=medium
expression-intensity=neutral
attitude-link=full

Expressive-subjectivity: full of fabrications

nested-source=w,Kong
polarity=negative
intensity=medium

Target: This report

id=report

Attitude: is full of fabrications

id=full
attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target-link=report
intensity=medium

$\parbox{5in}{(24)\lq\lq (25)It (26)confuses right and wrong and (27)attacks (28) China's legal system, ethnic policies and human rights conditions.'' }$

(writer, OSE=implicit)

This is the default, no changes

(writer, Kong; DSE=implicit; intensity=medium; sentiment-neg->report; ES=confuses right and wrong, attacks)

(24) Tag the quotation mark '"' as an implicit DSE
(24) Tag 'It' as a target
(26) Tag 'confuses right and wrong' as expressive-subjectivity
(26) Tag 'confuses ...conditions' as an attitude
(27) Tag 'attacks' as expressive-subjectivity

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

DSE: "

implicit=true
nested-source=w,Kong
intensity=medium
attitude-link=

Target: it

id=usreport

Expressive-subjectivity: confuses right and wrong

nested-source=w,Kong
attitude-type=negative
intensity=medium

Expressive-subjectivity: attacks

nested-source=w,Kong
attitude-type=negative
intensity=medium

Attitude: confuses ...conditions

attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target-link=usreport

(writer, Kong, report; DSE=attacks; intensity=medium; sentiment-neg->China)

(27) Tag 'attacks' as a DSE

NOTE: The span for 'attacks' is both an expressive subjective element for $<$w,Kong$>$ and a DSE for $<$w,Kong,report$>$

(27) Also Tag 'attacks' as an attiude.

(24) Tag the span 'it' as an agent:

nested-source=w,Kong,report

NOTE: the id 'report' is re-used from the first mention of the 'US state department report'.

(28) Tag 'China' as a target.
Give it a different id than used for the earlier target 'Beijing'; the practice is to have unique ids for targets.

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

DSE: attacks

attitude-link=attacks
nested-source=w,Kong,report
intensity=medium
expression-intensity=medium

Attitude: attacks

id=attacks
attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target-link=china2
intensity=medium

Target: China

id=china2

$\parbox{5in}{(28)''(29)The Chinese people and government are (30)strongly (31) dissatisfied with and (32)firmly (33)opposed to (34)it.'' }$

(writer, OSE=implicit)

This is the default, no changes

(writer, Kong, OSE=implicit)

(28) Tag '"' as an on (this will be an implicit on)

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OSE: "

implicit=true
nested-source=w,Kong

(writer, Kong, Chinese people; DSE=dissatisfied; intensity=low; sentiment-neg->report; ES=strongly)

(writer, Kong, Chinese people; DSE=opposed; intensity=low; sentiment-neg->report; ES=firmly)

(26) Tag 'The Chinese people and government' as an agent
(30) Tag 'strongly' as expressive-subjectivity
(31) Tag 'dissatisfied' as a DSE
(32) Tag 'firmly' as expressive-subjectivity
(33) Tag 'opposed' as an on
(34) Tag 'it' as an target

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

Agent: Chinese people and government'

id=peoplegov
nested-source:w,Kong,peoplegov

Expressive-subjectivity: strongly

nested-source=w,Kong,peoplegov
intensity=medium

DSE: dissatisfied

nested-source=w,Kong,peoplegov
intensity=high
expression-intensity=medium
attitude-link=strongopposition

Expressive-subjectivity: firmly

nested-source=w,Kong,peoplegov
intensity=medium

DSE: opposed

nested-source=w,Kong,peoplegov
onlyfactive=no
intensity=high
expression-intensity=medium attitude-link=strongopposition

Attitude: 'are strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to'

id=strongopposition
attitude-type=sentiment-neg
intensity=high
target-link=US_report

Target: it

id=US_report

$\parbox{5in}{\lq\lq (35)We (36)think this is an example of (37)the United... ...)pretext to interfere in other countries internal affairs, (39)Kong (40)said. }$

(writer; OSE=implicit)

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(writer, Kong; OSE=said)

(39) Tag 'Kong' as an agent
(40) Tag 'said' as an OSE

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

Agent: Kong

nested-source=w,Kong

OSE: said

nested-source=w,Kong

(writer, Kong, We(China); DSE=think; intensity=low; sentiment-neg->US; ES=pretext to interfere)

(35) Tag 'We' as an agent
(36) Tag 'think' as a DSE
(36) Tag 'the United States' as a target
(37) Tag 'pretext to interfere' as expressive-subjectivity
(41) Tag 'using human rights as a pretext to interfere in other countries' internal affairs' as an attitude

Fill in the following features for the above annotations.

Agent: We

nested-source=w,Kong,China

DSE: think

nested-source=w,Kong,China
intensity=low
expression-intensity=low
attitude-link=usehr

Target: the United States

id=USA

Expressive-subjectivity: pretext to interfere

nested-source=w,Kong,China
polarity=negative
intensity=low

Attitude: using human rights as a pretext to interfere in other countries' internal affairs

id=usehr
attitude-type=sentiment-neg
target-link=USA
intensity=low