Discourse Relations
Annotating Discourse Relations with the PDTB Annotator
... years, discourse relations have become a topic of some interest and there has in effect been a rise in the number of corpora annotated for discourse ...Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB) in 2008 ...
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Exploiting Discourse Relations for Sentiment Analysis
... predict discourse relations, and then conduct several methods to incorporate discourse structure knowledge to the task of sentiment ...define discourse relations in different ...
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Improving the Inference of Implicit Discourse Relations via Classifying Explicit Discourse Connectives
... implicit discourse relations. This is possible because im- plicit discourse connectives are inserted during annota- tion in the ...each discourse connective, we can compute omission rate and ...
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Uniform Surprisal at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission
... continuous discourse relations which based on cognitive theories and lab experiments tend to be eagerly inferred by readers when sentences are encountered ...of relations from PDTB and find a higher ...
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Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
... that discourse relations can be conveyed either explicitly or implicitly, and a translated text may not have made the same choices vis-a-vis explicitation as its source, caus- ing additional word alignment ...
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Towards the Unsupervised Acquisition of Discourse Relations
... This work was supported by a fellowship within the Postdoc program of the German Academic Ex- change Service (DAAD). Initial experiments were conducted at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 632 “Information ...
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Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge
... T h e clauses in 3 must be related by a discourse relation for the text to be coherent, and therefore given the meanings of the discourse relations, the events described must be connecte[r] ...
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Machine Comprehension with Discourse Relations
... independent discourse relations in question an- swering applications (Verberne et ...incorporating discourse processing can significantly help context question answering, a task in which subsequent ...
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Inferring Discourse Relations from PDTB style Discourse Labels for Argumentative Revision Classification
... of discourse information across larger contexts potentially limits the utility of PDTB-style ...RST-style discourse parser outperformed a PDTB-style ...state-of-the-art discourse parsers, we propose ...
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An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations
... Over the last thirty years, the nature, number, and taxonomy of discourse relations have been among the most controversial issues in text/discourse lin- guistics. This paper does not settle the ...
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On the role of discourse relations in persuasive texts
... of discourse connectives and the distribution of explicit and implicit discourse relations is genre-dependent (see, ...certain discourse connectives are highly predictive features for ...
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Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations
... Discourse connectives (DCs) (e.g. because, al- though) are terms that explicitly signal discourse relations within a text. Building a lexicon of DCs, where each connective is mapped to the ...
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Annotation and Analysis of Discourse Relations, Temporal Relations and Multi Layered Situational Relations in Japanese Texts
... temporal relations and discourse ...situational relations triggered by distinc- tions between individual-level and stage-level predicates in text, as well as constraints imposed by each type of ...
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rstWeb A Browser based Annotation Interface for Rhetorical Structure Theory and Discourse Relations
... Since its introduction by Mann & Thompson (1988) Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuing interest as a framework for the analysis of discourse relations, including the development of large ...
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Situated Utterances and Discourse Relations
... ongoing discourse as ...prior discourse (Asher and Lascarides, ...bear discourse relations both to prior utterances and to simultaneous ...
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The Overall Markedness of Discourse Relations
... Discourse relations between units of text are cru- cial for the production and understanding of dis- ...of discourse rela- tions have been proposed ...discontinuous relations: I drank a cup of ...
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Implicitness of Discourse Relations
... on discourse processing, people have expectations about inter-sentential relations when reading a text, which bias their inferential decisions during comprehension (Segal et ...Continuous discourse ...
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Towards an Annotated Corpus of Discourse Relations in Hindi
... Since discourse relations are defined as holding between eventualities, we have also identified relations that are expressed syntactically as relative pronouns in sentential relative clauses, which ...
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Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations
... Since discourse markers are the most important features one can use for defining (or choosing among previously-defined) discourse relation senses, statistics such as the strength of the cue become ...of ...
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Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank
... implicit relations is a critical step in forming a discourse understanding of text, as many text spans do not mark their discourse re- lations with explicit ...features discourse level ...
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