Previous experimental studies on concessive connectives have only looked at their local facilitating or predictive effect on discourse relation comprehension and have often viewed them as a class of discourse markers with similar effects. We look into the effect of two connectives, but and although, for inferring contrastive vs. concessive discourse relations to complement previous experimental...

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...

Securities Crowdfunding (SCF) is expected to be a fast, cheap, and massive alternative funding system for Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). However, its implementation far from ideal. Several studies in China, Britain, America concluded that SCF one of the riskiest investment instruments. This closely related lack audit obligations on financial statements MSMEs as Issuers. To analyze ab...

The study of computational tools for supporting human creativity is a topic of increasing importance in current artificial intelligence research. In this paper, we present the Minerva multiagent system able to support the creative activity of museum organizers. Minerva is a computational tool that helps the human organizers in some tedious operations and enlarges their creativity space by favor...

In this paper, we describe the development of a mobile phone app for supporting participants and organizers of Interspeech conferences. Based on a survey amongst future organizers and attendees, we identified the most relevant functionalities and implemented an initial set of them on two popular platforms, iOS and Android. The app is meant as an open tool to be handled under the auspices of ISC...

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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...