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Skrivesenter:Discourse relations

Revision as of 23:00, 31 January 2014 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


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

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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.
Sense tags and their meanings
Sense tag Meaning Descriptive Definition Example
ASS assert Introduces a new topic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
COM comparison Point out similarity or points of correspondence

between two events, ideas, objects or statements

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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 Identify the cause of an event. To be distinguished from reason

or purpose

CONCLD conclude Draw a logical conclusion on the basis of previously

presented premises

EVAL evaluate Make a value judgement, state an opinion or

indicate a preference

META meta-statement Make a statement about the text itself
QUE question Ask a question that will be answered in a

following unit

RESULT result Indicate an effect, outcome, result or

consequence

SUM summary Make a statement that summarizes previous,

more specific statements, without drawing logical conclusions (cf. conclude)

CONTIN contingency
C-EXPECT contra-expectation
CONT contrast Point out difference(s) between two events,

objects or ideasopenly signalled or inferred

DIS disjunction
EX exception
EXPEXT expectation
PURP purpose
GEN generalization Make a more general statement that builds

on/includes previous specific statements

JUST justification
JUX juxtaposition
LIST list
OPP opposition
PRES precedence
REASON reason
RESTATE restatement Rephrase or repeat a a previous assertion on

approximately the same level of generality

SEQ sequence temporal
SPEC specification enumeration of specific facts or

details

SUPP supplement
REACT physical or mental actions Indicates physical or mental actions or change of states of

animates which result from previously introduced actions, events or states. REACT is differentiated from RESULT by being open to choice or idiosyncracy

RESP respond Reply to a question in dialogue (direct, indirect

or inferred)