Using Sense-labeled Discourse Connectives for Statistical Machine Translation

GeCzLex: Lexicon of Czech and German Anaphoric Connectives

We introduce the first version of GeCzLex, an online electronic resource for translation equivalents of Czech and German discourse connectives. The lexicon is one of the outcomes of the research on anaphoricity and long-…

Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations

In this paper, we present an approach to exploit phrase tables generated by statistical machine translation in order to map French discourse connectives to discourse relations. Using this approach, we created ConcoLeDisC…

Ambiguity in Explicit Discourse Connectives

Discourse connectives are known to be subject to both usage and sense ambiguity, as has already been discussed in the literature. But discourse connectives are no different from other linguistic expressions in being subj…

Machine Translation with Many Manually Labeled Discourse Connectives

TCL - a Lexicon of Turkish Discourse Connectives

It is known that discourse connectives are the most salient indicators of discourse relations. State-of-the-art parsers being developed to predict explicit discourse connectives exploit annotated discourse corpora but a …