Discourse Particles

In spite of their important quantitative role, discourse particles have so far been ne- glected in automatic speech processing for two reasons: Firstly it is not clear what they may …...

. The distribution and use of the Japanese particle yo is examined using a large annotated sentiment corpus. The data is shown to support a decision-theoretic account of yo’s meaning …...

This paper proposes a general framework for the semantics of honorific expressions, includ- ing honorific pronouns, morphology, and dis- course particles. Such expressions are claimed to indicate a level of …...