MODAL: A Multilingual Corpus Annotated for Modality.

We have produced a corpus annotated for modality which amounts to approximately 20,000 words in English, French, and Italian. The annotation scheme is based on the notion of epistemic construction and virtually languageindependent. The annotation is rigorously evaluated by means of a newly developed strategy based on the alignment of the entire epistemic constructions as identified and marked up two annotators. The corpus and the agreement scoring tools are publicly available.