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Explicit and Implicit Discourse Relations in the Prague Discourse Treebank

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2019)

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Coherence of a text is provided by various language means, including discourse connectives (coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, adverbs etc.). However, semantic relations between text segments can be deduced without an explicit discourse connective, too (the so called implicit discourse relations, cf. He missed his train. 0 He had to take a taxi.). In our paper, we introduce a corpus of Czech annotated for implicit discourse relations (Enriched Discourse Annotation of Prague Discourse Treebank Subset 1.0) and we analyze some of the factors influencing the explicitness/implicitness of discourse relations, such as the text genre, semantic type of the discourse relation and the presence of negation in discourse arguments.

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Notes

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    Using an adapted environment for annotation of discourse relations on top of the deep syntax (tectogrammatical) layer implemented in tree editor TrEd [3, 4].

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    For a comparison, a measurement of inter-annotator agreement for implicit relations in the Turkish Discourse Treebank reports chance-corrected \(\kappa \) values of 0.52 for the class level, 0.43 for the type level and 0.34 for the subtype level [16]. The measurement at the subtype level corresponds to our measurement of agreement on discourse types.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by project “Implicit relations in text coherence” GA17-03461S of the Czech Science Foundation. The research team has been using language resources and tools distributed by the LINDAT/CLARIN project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (projects LM2015071 and OP VVV VI CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 013/0001781).

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    Šárka Zikánová, Jiří Mírovský & Pavlína Synková

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Zikánová, Š., Mírovský, J., Synková, P. (2019). Explicit and Implicit Discourse Relations in the Prague Discourse Treebank. In: Ekštein, K. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11697. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_20

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