LEXCONN: A French Lexicon of Discourse Connectives

With respect to discourse organization, the most basic way of signaling the speaker’s or writer’s intentions is to use explicit lexical markers: so-called discourse markers or discourse connectives. While a lexicon of discourse connectives associated with the relations they express can be very usefu...

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Published inDiscours Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 1 - 15
Main Authors Roze, Charlotte, Danlos, Laurence, Muller, Philippe
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Laboratoire LATTICE 01.01.2012
Laboratoire LATTICE - Presses universitaires de Caen
Presses universitaires de Caen
SeriesMultidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation
Subjects
ambiguity
Computation and Language
Computer Science
discourse connectives
discourse relations
Humanities and Social Sciences
identification of connectives
lexicon
Linguistics
discourse connectives
ambiguity
discourse relations
identification of connectives
lexicon
identii cation of connectives
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Summary:With respect to discourse organization, the most basic way of signaling the speaker’s or writer’s intentions is to use explicit lexical markers: so-called discourse markers or discourse connectives. While a lexicon of discourse connectives associated with the relations they express can be very useful for researchers, especially in Natural Language Processing, few projects aim at collecting them exhaustively, and only in a small number of languages. We present LEXCONN, a French lexicon of 328 discourse connectives, collected with their syntactic categories and the discourse relations they convey, and the methodology followed to build this resource. The lexicon has been constructed manually, applying systematic connective and relation identification criteria, using the FRANTEXT corpus as empirical support. Each connective has been associated to a relation within the framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. We make a case for a few refinements in the theory, based on cases where no existing relation seemed to match a connective’s usage.
ISSN:1963-1723
1963-1723
DOI:10.4000/discours.8645