The rhetorical parsing of unrestricted texts: a surface-based approach
Computational Linguistics
Building a large annotated corpus of English: the penn treebank
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Empirical studies on the disambiguation of cue phrases
Computational Linguistics
Sentence level discourse parsing using syntactic and lexical information
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
Using automatically labelled examples to classify rhetorical relations: An assessment
Natural Language Engineering
Discourse Connective Argument Identification with Connective Specific Rankers
ICSC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
SigDIAL '06 Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
The effects of discourse connectives prediction on implicit discourse relation recognition
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Realization of discourse relations by other means: alternative lexicalizations
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Predicting discourse connectives for implicit discourse relation recognition
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Disambiguating temporal-contrastive discourse connectives for machine translation
HLT-SS '11 Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Student Session
Automatically evaluating text coherence using discourse relations
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Automatic question generation using discourse cues
IUNLPBEA '11 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Multilingual annotation and disambiguation of discourse connectives for machine translation
SIGDIAL '11 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference
Modelling discourse relations for Arabic
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Using sense-labeled discourse connectives for statistical machine translation
EACL 2012 Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra)
Global features for shallow discourse parsing
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Contingency and comparison relation labeling and structure prediction in Chinese sentences
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Discourse structure and language technology
Natural Language Engineering
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Discourse connectives are words or phrases such as once, since, and on the contrary that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation. There are two types of ambiguity that need to be resolved during discourse processing. First, a word can be ambiguous between discourse or non-discourse usage. For example, once can be either a temporal discourse connective or a simply a word meaning "formerly". Secondly, some connectives are ambiguous in terms of the relation they mark. For example since can serve as either a temporal or causal connective. We demonstrate that syntactic features improve performance in both disambiguation tasks. We report state-of-the-art results for identifying discourse vs. non-discourse usage and human-level performance on sense disambiguation.