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Primary and secondary discourse connectives: definitions and lexicons

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Starting from the perspective that discourse structure arises from the presence of coherence relations, we provide a map of linguistic discourse structuring devices (DRDs), and focus on those for written text. We propose to structure these items by differentiating between primary and secondary connectives on the one hand, and free connecting phrases on the other. For the former, we propose that their behavior can be described by lexicons, and we show one concrete proposal that by now has been applied to three languages, with others being added in ongoing work. The lexical representations can be useful both for humans (theoretical investigations, transfer to other languages) and for machines (automatic discourse parsing and generation).

Source: Dialogue & Discourse

DOI: 10.5087/dad.2018.102

Authors: Laurence Danlos, Katerina Rysova, Magdalena Rysova, Manfred Stede

Institutions: Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Diderot, Charles University, University of Potsdam

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Grantová Agentura České Republiky, Institut Universitaire de France

Awards: Anaphoricity in Connectives: Lexical Description and Bilingual Corpus Analysis, G6914310122, G7411585938