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Skrivesenter:Discourse relations

Revision as of 13:33, 7 November 2013 by Dorothee Beermann (Talk | contribs) (Sense Tags and their meanings)

Overall Motivation

Dorothee's Presentation for download

The overall motivation is to create a richly annotated discourse corpus facilitating the analysis of student texts within writing research.

The main perspective taken is that of discourse analysis. Linguistic analysis is helpful, but not our main goal.

A student text is understood as a written discourse, and it is it mainly the argumentation structure of the discourse that we will be annotating.

So far we have identified a couple of Lexically-grounded discourse relations, but also talked about, Anchors and Discourse chains.

Lexically-grounded discourse relations we have listed in the sortable table below:

Lexically grounded discourse relations

Lexically-grounded discourse relations
Sense Grammatical category Connective
condition conjunction hvis
condition conjunction når
goal conjunction for å
sequence/temporal conjunction og[1]
list conjunction og
precedence adverb etterpå
precedence adverb
specification multi-word expression for eksempel
supplement adverb alias
disjunction conjunction eller[1]
temporal conjunction når


Sense Tags and their meanings

Sense tags and their meanings
Sense tag Meaning Descriptive Definition
ASS assert Introduces a new topic
COM comparison - ASSdesc assert through description Introducing a new setting, character or atmosphere
ASSnar assert through narration Introducing a state or a new event or action
CONCES concession
COND condition
CONJ conjunction
CAUS cause to be distinguished from reason or purpose
CONCLD conclude
EVAL evaluate
META meta-statement
QUE question
RESULT result also effect or outcome
SUM summary
CONTIN contingency
C-EXPECT contra-expectation
CONT contrast openly signalled or inferred
DIS disjunction
EX exception
EXPEXT expectation
PURP purpose
GEN generalization
JUST justification
JUX juxtaposition
LIST list
OPP opposition
PRES precedence
REASON reason
RESTATE restatement
SEQ sequence temporal
SPEC specification enumeration of specific facts or details
SUPP supplement
REACT please define
  1. 1.0 1.1 Notice that 'og' and 'eller' can combine noun phrases, as in 'pc og mobilen' or verb phrases, as in 'jeg dusjer og fikser meg'. It is the latter case that we are interested in here.