Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives in multilingual corpora

Zufferey, Sandrine; Degand, Liesbeth (2017). Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives in multilingual corpora. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 13(2), pp. 399-422. De Gruyter 10.1515/cllt-2013-0022

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Discourse connectives are lexical items indicating coherence relations between discourse segments. Even though many languages possess a whole range of connectives, important divergences exist cross-linguistically in the number of connectives that are used to express a given relation. For this reason, connectives are not easily paired with a univocal translation equivalent across languages. This paper is a first attempt to design a reliable method to annotate the meaning of discourse connectives cross-linguistically using corpus data. We present the methodological choices made to reach this aim and report three annotation experiments using the framework of the Penn Discourse Tree Bank.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature > Linguistic Studies
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature

UniBE Contributor:

Zufferey, Sandrine

Subjects:

400 Language > 410 Linguistics
400 Language > 440 French & related languages

ISSN:

1613-7035

Publisher:

De Gruyter

Language:

English

Submitter:

Sandrine Zufferey

Date Deposited:

25 Apr 2016 09:33

Last Modified:

08 Jun 2023 08:50

Publisher DOI:

10.1515/cllt-2013-0022

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/78540

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/78540

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