Discourse Markers

While it seems intuitively obvious that many dis- course markers (DMs) are able to express discourse relations (DRs) which exist independently, the spe- cific contribution of DMs - if any …...

The concern of this paper is the signalling of segments and relations in written texts. It explores the role of visual formatting and its relation to lexical and other markers. …...

This paper applies machine learning techniques to acquiring aspects of the meaning of discourse mark- ers. Three subtasks of acquiring the meaning of a discourse marker are considered: learning its …...

AbstractDiscourse structure and coherence relations are one of the main inferential challenges addressed by computational pragmatics. The present study focuses on discourse markers as key elements in guiding the inferences …...

In this paper we describe an empirical study of human-human multi-tasking dia- logues (MTD), where people perform mul- tiple verbal tasks overlapped in time. We examined how conversants switch from …...

AbstractThis paper presents a preliminary analysis of the role of some discourse markers and the vocalic hesitation ""euh"" in a corpus of spoken human utterances collected with the Ritel system, …...

AbstractWe have compiled a corpus of 80 Dutch texts from expository and persuasive genres, which we annotated for rhetorical and genre-specific discourse structure, and lexical cohesion with the goal of …...

This paper presents a study on the role of discourse markers in argumentative dis- course. We annotated a German cor- pus with arguments according to the com- mon claim-premise model …...

AbstractIt is well-known that distributional semantic approaches have difficulty in distinguishing between synonyms and antonyms (Grefenstette, 1992; Padó and Lapata, 2003). Recent work has shown that supervision available in English …...

AbstractCurrent state of the art systems in NLP heavily rely on manually annotated datasets, which are expensive to construct. Very little work adequately exploits unannotated data – such as discourse …...

AbstractWe introduce the first version of GeCzLex, an online electronic resource for translation equivalents of Czech and German discourse connectives. The lexicon is one of the outcomes of the research …...

AbstractDiscourse markers carry information about the discourse structure and organization, and also signal local dependencies or epistemological stance of speaker. They provide instructions on how to interpret the discourse, and …...

AbstractDiscourse analysis is an important task because it models intrinsic semantic structures between sentences in a document. Discourse markers are natural representations of discourse in our daily language. One challenge …...