Anaphoric connectives are event anaphors (or abstract anaphors) that in addition convey a coherence relation holding between the antecedent and the host clause of the connective. Some of them carry an explicitly-anaphoric morpheme, others do not. We analysed the set of German connectives for this property and found that many have an additional nonconnective reading, where they serve as nominal ...

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...

Some temporal query languages work directly on a timestamp repre sentation of the temporal database while others provide a more implicit access to the ow of time by means of temporal connectives We study the di erences in expressive power between these two approaches We rst consider rst order logic i e the relational calculus We show that rst order future temporal logic is strictly less powerfu...

Many discourse connectives also have nondiscourse, or sentential readings. Therefore, for automatic discourse structure analysis, there arises a disambiguation problem even before the question of signalled discourse relation beomes relevant. We focus here on a set of nine German connectives and characterize the task of determining their discourse/sentential reading. Starting from an analysis of...

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...