[PDF] Top 20 Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts

... argumentative discourse units (ADUs); these may in turn consist of several elementary discourse units (EDUs) as used in RST and SDRT (see ...complex texts can be created, identifying the central ... See full document

... large corpus created from the original Quranic text, where semantically similar or related verses are linked ...This corpus will be a valuable evaluation resource for computational linguists investigating ... See full document

... We take some core ideas from our previous work on mining script information (Regneri et al., 2010). In this earlier work, we focused on event structures and their possible realizations in natural language. The ... See full document

... the discourse relations of the initial text are maintained in the ...since discourse relations are semantic and rhetorical in nature, they usually transfer from source language to target ...End-To-End ... See full document

... quality corpus of parallel sentences appropriate for training a statistical machine translation ...our corpus by training a phrase-based translation system (Koehn et ...translated texts as its ... See full document

... news texts on China Daily and The New York Times, Fang (2008) explores the discourse features of English that expressed by Chinese native speakers by means of RST, and the study helps English foreign ... See full document

... folklore texts or meta-documents, ...multi-layered annotations, and the resulting glossaries were integrated in a database platform that was devel- oped to serve as a content management ...whole ... See full document

... On the other hand, the experiment carried out in this study reveals many useful facts concerning the specific strategies each language adopts to encode the discursive structure. These facts help the community build a ... See full document

... on discourse parsing on the basis of the above hand- annotated corpora ...on discourse parsing can be attributed to the existence of corpora with discourse ...large-scale discourse corpora. To ... See full document

... lishes short “microposts” by registered ...contain discourse connectives (Scheffler, ...annotated corpus of explicit connectives in English tweets, which allows us to test genre differences between ... See full document

... of annotations are provided in the corpus: segmentation of EDUs, discourse units nuclearity, types of discourse relations, rhetorical tree ...this corpus unlocked the possibility to use ... See full document

... Section 4 has shown the potential of our method for identifying and extracting causal relations from text. The advantage of our approach is that we do not depend on the existence of precompiled knowledge bases but rely ... See full document

... (“It [hudnah] is not a show of universal peace to which Islam aspires. No! It only allows us to catch our breath in order to better attack the disbelievers”) Another category that is more predominant in French than in ... See full document

... Most existing algorithms derive morpheme lexi- cons by identifying recurring patterns in string dis- tribution. The goal is to optimize the compactness of the data representation by finding a small lexicon of highly ... See full document

... B: Creating Conceptual Units - To create the CuIds (a semi-automatic process), we cluster the sentences using k-means clustering with k set ar- bitrarily high to over-generate (Witten and Frank, 2005). This facilitates ... See full document

... National Corpus (BNC) reveal that their subjects are often negative and would therefore benefit from being less flamboyant and more covert, such as flamboyant ‘voyeurs’, ‘exhibitionists’, ‘charlatans’ and ... See full document

... As expected, the paragraph baseline was very good, having the best F values of the baseline set. This shows that, in most of the texts, the sub- topics are organized in paragraphs. Although the sentence baseline ... See full document

... Understanding the aboutness of Web documents is important for many Web based systems. While in the past the aboutness of documents has been primarily formulated as a problem of finding the top-K most relevant keywords in ... See full document

... The agreement between the annotators reached a κ-value of 0.57 (on token level using an in-out classification scheme) in the first annotation round. An analysis of the pairwise results showed that three of the annotators ... See full document

... A coreference-annotated corpus from the domain of biochemistry, consisting of full-text articles, has been developed. It was annotated following guide- lines which covered coreference and semantic types that have ... See full document