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2000
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13 years 5 months ago
Discourse Particles and Discourse Functions
Spoken language, especially spoken German, is rich in particles that do not contribute to the propositional content of utterances, but play important roles in steering the flow of ...
Manfred Stede, Birte Schmitz
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
A unified account of the semantics of discourse particles
The paper investigates discourse particles on the example of German doch, assigning to them very specific semantic interpretations that still cover a wide range of their uses. The...
Markus Egg
INLG
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle - When to Say Also
Abstract. Discourse anaphora other than definite NPs have not received much attention in generation. This paper proposes a strategy for generating the additive particle also, a no...
Kristina Striegnitz
ACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Priority Union and Generalization in Discourse Grammars
We describe an implementation in Carpenter's typed feature formalism, ALE, of a discourse grammar of the kind proposed by Scha, Polanyi, et al. We examine their method for re...
Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar, Marc ...
LREC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Pragmatic Annotation of Discourse Markers in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus (Arabic- Spanish-English)
Discourse structure and coherence relations are one of the main inferential challenges addressed by computational pragmatics. The present study focuses on discourse markers as key...
Doaa Samy, Ana González-Ledesma