Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few well-defined syntactic classes. In this paper, we describe how the lexicalized discourse relation annotations of the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) led to the discovery of a wide range of additional expressions, annota...

The paper presents machine translation experiments from English to Czech with a large amount of manually annotated discourse connectives. The gold-standard discourse relation annotation leads to better translation performance in ranges of 4–60% for some ambiguous English connectives and helps to find correct syntactical constructs in Czech for less ambiguous connectives. Automatic scoring confi...

We describe our efforts to apply the Penn Discourse Treebank guidelines on a Tamil corpus to create an annotated corpus of discourse relations in Tamil. After conducting a preliminary exploratory study on Tamil discourse connectives, we show our observations and results of a pilot experiment that we conducted by annotating a small portion of our corpus. Our ultimate goal is to develop a Tamil D...

There are two conceivable readings for (1). Either (a) it refers to the party or (b) Peter only disliked the food. Discourse grammars like Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) offer an explanation for this phenomenon. SDRT an extension ofDRT (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) describes a complex propositional structure of Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) connected via discourse relati...

Scholarship on publics has proliferated during the past two decades, especially in linguistic anthropology. Drawing Michael Warner’s famous formulation, are now routinely theorized as a social form predicated reflexive circulation of discourse. This article, however, identifies tension within conception publics. On one hand, Warner levels critique liberal publicity, noting its exclusions and co...

Most GISs uses system specific data models and databases. Although standardisation efforts have been made during decades, the integration of different data models is still a research issue. Ontologies are developed to provide an interface between diverse domains or universes of discourse. For example, ontological engineering is applied for establishing standards in the field of Geographic Infor...