Discourse Relation

A Discourse Relation is a relation between discourse elements.

• See: Discourse Connective, Semantic Relation, Discourse, Biomedical Discourse Relation Bank, Penn Discourse TreeBank, Causal Relation, Temporal Relation, Contrastive Relation.

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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: … A discourse is considered to be a coherent sequence of clauses, sentences or propositions. Discourse relations, such as causal, temporal, and contrastive relations, are relations between eventualities and propositions mentioned in a text, from which we can draw deep or complex inferences about the text. Often, discourse relations are realized in text by explicit words and phrases, called discourse connectives, but they can also be implicit.

2007

• (Joshi, 2007) ⇒ Aravind K. Joshi. (2007). “Complexity of Dependencies in Natural Language. Presentation, Vancouver, Feb 22.

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