The current dramatic context of COVID-19 has urged academics and practitioners to tackle the topic pandemic not only regarding its medical side but from perspective social sciences, accounting accountability as well. In this sense, our paper moves pivotal work Higgins Walker (2012) Merkl-Davies Brennan (2017) tries trace use extent communication by companies during peculiar pandemic. Considerin...

We propose d-stag, a new formalism for the automatic analysis of discourse. The analyses computed by d-stag are hierarchical discourse structures annotated with discourse relations, which are compatible with discourse structures computed in sdrt. A discursive stag grammar pairs up trees anchored by discourse connectives with trees anchored by (functors associated with) discourse relations.

Text complexity can be reduced by making different choices at the lexical and grammatical levels. However, discourse-level choices may also affect a text’s complexity. In a coherent text, explicit discourse relations (e.g. CAUSE, CONDITION) are expressed using discourse markers (e.g. since, because, etc.) that may be preferred for texts at different readability levels. In this paper, we investi...

At present, discourse parsing is an important research topic. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is one of the most popular approaches in this field. In general, discourse parsing includes three stages: discourse segmentation, discourse relations detection and building up rhetorical trees. Different strategies are used when developing discourse parsers. One of the strategies to detect discourse ...

Discourse relation may entail sentiment information. In this work, we annotate both discourse relation and sentiment information on a moderate-sized Chinese corpus extracted from the ClueWeb09. Based on the annotation, we investigate the association between the relation type and the sentiment polarity in Chinese and interpret the data from various aspects. Finally, we highlight some language ph...

In this paper, we describe an annotation environment developed for the marking of discourse structures in Turkish, and the kinds of discourse relation configurations that led to its design.