Anaphoric Connectives and Long-Distance Discourse Relations in Czech

Poláková, Lucie; Mírovský, Jiří

doi:10.13053/cys-23-3-3274

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“…A possible different scope of connectives in paragraph-initial positions was previously indicated in a study analyzing discourse connectives with anaphoric properties and their ability to relate to a distant, non-adjacent left-sided argument (Poláková and Mírovský, 2019). A special set of cases was defined where the connective actually does not relate to a short non-adjacent segment on its left, but to an adjacent, quite larger segment of text and is interpretable as a means of higher discourse structuring.…”

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“…The minimality principle instructs the annotators to mark as an argument as many clauses and/or sentences as are minimally required and sufficient for the interpretation of the relation. Poláková and Mírovský (2019) with focus on paragraph-initial connectives and we dedicate the following subsection to this topic.…”

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“…And/or, this phenomenon might be inherent to language. In a similar manner in which anaphora in the language occurs much more often than cataphora, the connectives (some of which are indeed anaphoric, compare Webber et al (2003), Stede and Grishina (2016) or Poláková and Mírovský (2019)), relate to small or larger previous semantic contents. 28 From a cognitive perspective, this disproportion of argument sizes may be connected with the linear way of text production and also the gradual growth of information received by the reader, and the perspective of the annotator, who may proceed incrementally, like a reader, not knowing about the sizes of any right context.…”

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Discourse Relations and Connectives in Higher Text Structure

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The present article investigates possibilities and limits of local (shallow) analysis of discourse coherence with respect to the phenomena of global coherence and higher composition of texts. We study corpora annotated with local discourse relations in Czech and partly in English to try and find clues in the local annotation indicating a higher discourse structure. First, we classify patterns of subsequent or overlapping pairs of local relations, and hierarchies formed by nested local relations. Special attention is then given to relations crossing paragraph boundaries and their semantic types, and to paragraph-initial discourse connectives. In the third part, we examine situations in which annotators incline to marking a large argument (larger than one sentence) of a discourse relation even with a minimality principle annotation rule in place. Our analyses bring (i) new linguistic insights regarding coherence signals in local and higher contexts, e.g. detection and description of hierarchies of local discourse relations up to 5 levels in Czech and English, description of distribution differences in semantic types in cross-paragraph and other settings, identification of Czech connectives only typical for higher structures, or the detection of prevalence of large left-sided arguments in locally annotated data; (ii) as another type of contribution, some new reflections on methodologies of the approaches under scrutiny.

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Mining Local Discourse Annotation for Features of Global Discourse Structure

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Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German

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Adverbial connectives like therefore, which link a preceding ‘external’ to an ‘internal’ argument, can be regarded as anaphoric: The external argument is selected by an interpretation process akin to that of an event anaphor, and intervening material can appear between both arguments. We report on a crowdsourcing experiment on the German connectives trotzdem and dennoch that studies factors that lead readers to assume such long-distance arguments: semantic plausibility of intervening material, ‘subjective’ versus ‘objective’ content, and the presence of an anaphoric morpheme in the connective. We find that the type and content of the intervening material play an important role in argument choice.

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Anaphoric Connectives and Long-Distance Discourse Relations in Czech

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Discourse Relations and Connectives in Higher Text Structure

Discourse Relations and Connectives in Higher Text Structure

Mining Local Discourse Annotation for Features of Global Discourse Structure

Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German

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