Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives in multilingual corpora
(2017) Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory — Vol. 13, n° 2, p. 399-422 (2017)
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- Discourse connectives are lexical items indicating coherence relations between discourse segments. Even though many languages possess a whole range of connectives, important divergences exist cross-linguistically in the number of connectives that are used to express a given relation. For this reason, connectives are not easily paired with a univocal translation equivalent across languages. This paper is a first attempt to design a reliable method to annotate the meaning of discourse connectives cross-linguistically using corpus data. We present the methodological choices made to reach this aim and report three annotation experiments using the framework of the Penn Discourse Tree Bank.
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Zufferey, S., & Degand, L. (2017). Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives in multilingual corpora. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 13(2), 399-422. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2013-0022 (Original work published 2017)