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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations
We present a corpus study of local discourse relations based on the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, a large manually annotated corpus of explicitly or implicitly realized relations. We ...
Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani...
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few ...
Rashmi Prasad, Aravind K. Joshi, Bonnie L. Webber
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Annotating Discourse Connectives for Arabic
We 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...
Amal Al-Saif, Katja Markert
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text
Discourse connectives are words or phrases such as once, since, and on the contrary that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation. There are two types of ambiguity t...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank
Articles in the Penn TreeBank were identified as being reviews, summaries, letters to the editor, news reportage, corrections, wit and short verse, or quarterly profit reports. Al...
Bonnie L. Webber