Acquiring the meaning of discourse markers

  • Authors:
  • Ben Hutchinson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper applies machine learning techniques to acquiring aspects of the meaning of discourse markers. Three subtasks of acquiring the meaning of a discourse marker are considered: learning its polarity, veridicality, and type (i.e. causal, temporal or additive). Accuracy of over 90% is achieved for all three tasks, well above the baselines.