Discourse Connective
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A Discourse Connective is a functional word that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation.
- Context:
- It can range from being an Explicit Discourse Connective to being an Implicit Discourse Connective.
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- Example(s):
- See: Semantic Relation, Discourse Relation, Causal Relation, Temporal Relation, Contrastive Relation.
References
2015
- http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/conll15st/
- QUOTE:A participant system is given a piece of newswire text as input and returns discourse relations in the form of a discourse connective (explicit or implicit) taking two arguments (which can be clauses, sentences, or multi-sentence segments).
2011
- (Prasad et al., 2011) ⇒ Rashmi Prasad, Susan McRoy, Nadya Frid, Aravind Joshi, and Hong Yu. (2011). “[10.1186/1471-2105-12-188 The Biomedical Discourse Relation Bank].” In: BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:188. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-188
- QUOTE: … Often, discourse relations are realized in text by explicit words and phrases, called discourse connectives, but they can also be implicit.
2009
- (Pitler & Nenkova, 2009) ⇒ Emily Pitler, and Ani Nenkova. (2009). “Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text.” In: Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers.
- QUOTE: Discourse connectives are words or phrases such as once, since, and on the contrary that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation. There are two types of ambiguity that need to be resolved during discourse processing.