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ACL
2009
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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
LREC
2008
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In Contrast - A Complex Discourse Connective
This paper presents a corpus-based study of the discourse connective in contrast. The corpus data are drawn from the British National Corpus (BNC) and are analyzed at the levels o...
Erhard W. Hinrichs, Monica Lau
LREC
2010
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Exploiting Scope for Shallow Discourse Parsing
We present an approach to automatically identifying the arguments of discourse connectives based on data from the Penn Discourse Treebank. Of the two arguments of connectives, cal...
Rashmi Prasad, Aravind K. Joshi, Bonnie L. Webber
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank
Abstract. An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives,...
Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, Aravind...