Coordination of Causal Relations in Discourse
نویسندگان
چکیده
The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we aim to shed light on the need to distinguish French causal connectives which convey a semantic relation from those which convey a discourse relation. Next, we aim to put forward an analysis of coordination of causal relations, in comparison with coordination of facts. While the latter is well-known, the former has nearly never been studied.
منابع مشابه
Causality, lexicon, and discourse meaning
This paper is about causality, defined as a specific relation between eventualities on an event-state chain, called a ‘causal chain’. Though causality is a dynamic temporal relation, the expression of causality in discourse contrasts with temporal discourses, in which temporal order between eventualities is parallel to the sequential order of linguistic segments in discourse. Causal discourses ...
متن کاملBuilding a Japanese Corpus of Temporal-Causal-Discourse Structures Based on SDRT for Extracting Causal Relations
This paper proposes a methodology for generating specialized Japanese data sets for the extraction of causal relations, in which temporal, causal and discourse relations at both the fact level and the epistemic level, are annotated. We applied our methodology to a number of text fragments taken from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese. We evaluated the feasibility of our method...
متن کاملTendency for Causality in Implicit Discourse Relations
Discourse relations can be expressed with or without their explicit cues: “The streets are wet because] it was raining”. In the latter case they are called implicit, as the inference relies only on the content of the arguments. The question here is whether language users prefer causal relations to other types of relations in the absence of cues. We elaborate on some related hypotheses such fort...
متن کاملDiscourse Expectations and Implicitness of (Causal) Discourse Relations
It has been argued that language users prefer causal relations to other types of relations (causality-by-default hypothesis, Sanders 2005). A second hypothesis is the continuity hypothesis (Murray 1997), which proposes that readers expect subsequent sentences to be causally congruent and continuous, hence predicting that causal relations are more expected than adversative ones and that causal r...
متن کاملImplicitness of Discourse Relations
The annotations of explicit and implicit discourse connectives in the Penn Discourse Treebank make it possible to investigate on a large scale how different types of discourse relations are expressed. Assuming an account of the Uniform Information Density hypothesis, we expect that discourse relations should be expressed explicitly with a discourse connector when they are unexpected, but may be...
متن کامل