Learning explicit and implicit Arabic discourse relations

Explicit Discourse Connectives / Implicit Discourse Relations

Subgraph-based Classification of Explicit and Implicit Discourse Relations

Current approaches to recognizing discourse relations rely on a combination of shallow, surfacebased features (e.g., bigrams, word pairs), and rather specialized hand-crafted features. As a way to avoid both the shallowness of word-based representations and the lack of coverage of specialized linguistic features, we use a graph-based representation of discourse segments, which allows for a more...

Implicit–Explicit Relations

Mental process and mental experience are not the same thing. The former is the operation of the mind; the latter is the subjective life that emerges from that operation. In social evaluation, implicit and explicit attitudes express this distinction. Although it is clear that they are not the same, how they differ is not. Across content domains, implicit and explicit attitude measures show subst...

Modelling Discourse Relations for Arabic

We present the first algorithms to automatically identify explicit discourse connectives and the relations they signal for Arabic text. First we show that, for Arabic news, most adjacent sentences are connected via explicit connectives in contrast to English, making the treatment of explicit discourse connectives for Arabic highly important. We also show that explicit Arabic discourse connectiv...

Implicit and explicit coherence relations

Jan Renkema, in his Introduction to Discourse Studies, describes current research in coherence relations (also called rhetorical or discourse relations), and lists a few open questions in that area. One of the most important issues, from both a theoretical and applied point of view, is the signaling of relations, that is, the explicit marking of the presence of a relation. In this paper, I ques...