Discourse Connectives

The annotations of the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) include (1) discourse connectives and their arguments, and (2) attribution of each argument of each con- nective and of the relation it …...

AbstractWe present the first effort towards producing an Arabic Discourse Treebank,a news corpus where all discourse connectives are identified and annotated with the discourse relations they convey as well as …...

This paper develops a minimally supervised approach, based on focused distributional sim- ilarity methods and discourse connectives, for identifying of causality relations between events in context. While it has been …...

Discourse connectives (e.g. however, because) are terms that explicitly express discourse rela- tions in a coherent text. While a list of discourse connectives is useful for both theoretical and empirical …...

AbstractAs pre-trained language models (LMs) continue to dominate NLP, it is increasingly important that we understand the depth of language capabilities in these models. In this paper, we target pre-trained …...

AbstractObtaining linguistic annotation from novice crowdworkers is far from trivial. A case in point is the annotation of discourse relations, which is a complicated task. Recent methods have obtained promising …...