Discourse markers and their functions have been modeled through a large number of very
diverse frameworks. Most of these models target written language and the discourse …

It is generally acknowledged that discourse markers are used differently in speech and
writing, yet many general descriptions and most annotation frameworks are written-based …

Understanding discourse connectives is an important step to achieving effective verbal
communication. Yet, the ability of adult native speakers to understand the broad range of …

Discourse-annotated corpora are an important resource for the community, but they are
often annotated according to different frameworks. This makes joint usage of the annotations …

In this paper we propose a first empirical map** between the RST-DT and the PDTB 3.0.
We provide an original algorithm which allowed the map** of 6,510 (80.0%) explicit and …

Examples and specifications occur frequently in text, but not much is known about how they
function in discourse and how readers interpret them. Looking at how they're annotated in …

Abstract The Cognitive approach to Coherence Relations (Sanders, Spooren, & Noordman,
1992) was originally proposed as a set of cognitively plausible primitives to order coherence …

Abstract We present the Potsdam Commentary Corpus 2.2, a German corpus of news
editorials annotated on several different levels. New in the 2.2 version of the corpus are two …

We present a new dataset of TED-talks annotated with the questions they evoke and, where
available, the answers to these questions. Evoked questions represent a hitherto mostly …

Experience in using the concepts of the ISO 24617-2 standard for dialogue act annotation
and the DIT++ dialogue act taxonomy has made it clear that a severe limitation for their on …