Work

Constructing a Lexicon of English Discourse Connectives

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We present a new lexicon of English discourse connectives called DiMLex-Eng, built by merging information from two annotated corpora and an additional list of relation signals from the literature.The format follows the German connective lexicon DiMLex, which provides a crosslinguistically applicable XML schema.DiMLex-Eng contains 149 English connectives, and gives information on syntactic categories, discourse semantics and non-connective uses (if any).We report on the development steps and discuss design decisions encountered in the lexicon expansion phase.The resource is freely available for use in studies of discourse structure and computational applications.

Source: Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/w18-5042

Authors: Debopam Das, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje, Manfred Stede

Institution: University of Potsdam

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: G2375902127