We present the first algorithms to automatically identify explicit discourse connectives and the relations they signal for Arabic text. First we show that, for Arabic news, most adjacent sentences are connected via explicit connectives in contrast to English, making the treatment of explicit discourse connectives for Arabic highly important. We also show that explicit Arabic discourse connectiv...

It is show11 that axiomatic extensions of intuitionistic propositional calculus defining univocally new connectives. including those proposed by Gabbay. are strongly complete with respect to valuations in Heyting algebras with additional operations. In all cases. the double negatio~l of such a connective is equivalent to a formula of intnitionistic calculus. Thus, under the excluded third law i...

In Chinese text, discourse connectives constitute a major linguistic device available for a writer to explicitly indicate the structure of a discourse. This set of discourse connectives, consisting of a few hundred entries in modern Chinese, is relatively stable and domain independent. In a recently published paper [T'sou 1996], a computational procedure was introduced to generate the abstract ...

The talk will show how the disambiguation of discourse connectives can improve their automatic translation. Connectives are a class of frequent functional lexical items that play an important role in text readability and coherence. Longer-range context is taken into account to learn the signaled rhetorical relations. The labels obtained from a discourse connective classifier are then integrated...

This paper describes first steps towards extending the METU Turkish Corpus from a sentence-level language resource to a discourse-level resource by annotating its discourse connectives and their arguments. The project is based on the same principles as the Penn Discourse TreeBank (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pdtb) and is supported by TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of ...

This study deals with the use of connectives in oral French narration. Sevento eleven-year-old native speakers of French told ‘silent’ comic strip stories involving two characters to a same-age peer. The comic strips differed from each other in the display mode (consecutive vs. simultaneous), the type of event sequence (arbitrary vs. ordered) and the thematic continuity (continuous vs. disconti...

Rapid axonal depolarization follows the elevation of [K+]o in the Ringer bathing the surfaces of the connectives of both intact and desheathed cerebrovisceral connectives of Anodonta cygnea. Potassium movements between the blood or medium bathing the surface of the connectives and the axonal membranes can be accounted for in terms of a first-order diffusion process. No visible structural barrie...

Discourse connectives (e.g. however, because) are terms that explicitly express discourse relations in a coherent text. While a list of discourse connectives is useful for both theoretical and empirical research on discourse relations, few languages currently possess such a resource. In this article, we propose a new method that exploits parallel corpora and collocation extraction techniques to...

We make an argument that, for any study involving computational effects such as divergence or continuations, the traditional syntax of simply typed lambda-calculus cannot be regarded as canonical, because standard arguments for canonicity rely on isomorphisms that may not exist in an effectful setting. To remedy this, we define a “jumbo lambda-calculus” that fuses the traditional connectives to...