We present an approach to automatically identifying the arguments of discourse connectives based on data from the Penn Discourse Treebank. Of the two arguments of connectives, called Arg1 and Arg2, we focus on Arg1, which has proven more challenging to identify. Our approach employs a sentence-based representation of arguments, and distinguishes intra-sentential connectives, which take both the...

1. The authors use the terms Inter-sentential language patters and provide examples such as -<>, and <>. How are these patterns different from word pairs?. The authors also describe that the ISL patters outperform the word patters, without providing examples on how each of these are different. The usage of terms in the abstract, without providing any supp...

This paper presents an ongoing research project, started in March 2010 and sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which aims at improving machine translation output in terms of textual coherence. Coherence in text is mainly due to inter-sentential dependencies. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems, currently sentence-based, often fail to translate these dependencies correc...

Sense classification of discourse relations is a sub-task of shallow discourse parsing. Discourse relations can occur both across sentences (inter-sentential) and within sentences (intra-sentential), and more than one discourse relation can hold between the same units. Using a newly available corpus of discourse-annotated intra-sentential conjoined verb phrases, we demonstrate a sequential clas...

Full text discourse parsing relies on texts comprehensively annotated with discourse relations. To this end, we address a significant gap in the inter-sentential discourse relations annotated in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB), namely the class of cross-paragraph implicit relations, which account for 30% of inter-sentential relations in the corpus. We present our annotation study to explore ...

This study aims to look into different the types of code-switching that teacher employs when teaching English at Al-Hidayah Boarding School and function teacher's on learning School. writer has conducted this through a qualitative method with case design. An is subject in study. The collected data using observation interview instruments. results analysis showed use by occurred total 199 cases; ...

BACKGROUND Online psychiatric texts are natural language texts expressing depressive problems, published by Internet users via community-based web services such as web forums, message boards and blogs. Understanding the cause-effect relations embedded in these psychiatric texts can provide insight into the authors' problems, thus increasing the effectiveness of online psychiatric services. ME...