Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues
In this paper, we focus on the Elaboration relation and on its automatic identification in French, using the theoretical framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). One of the information sources identified by the SDRT framework to infer the Elaboration relation is based on the ex...
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| description | In this paper, we focus on the Elaboration relation and on its automatic identification in French, using the theoretical framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). One of the information sources identified by the SDRT framework to infer the Elaboration relation is based on the existence of a potential subsumption link between the eventualities at stake, depending on lexical semantics and world knowledge. We investigate this claim by combining a weak syntactic marker of the Elaboration relation, namely the gerund clause, with lexical cohesion cues. We aim at automatically identifying gerund clauses which are Elaborations by finding cohesive links between the host main clause and the gerund clause. This approach makes it possible to accurately detect few cases of intra-sentential Elaborations in our corpus, confirming the fact that lexical cohesion cues are relevant for this task. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-885df880c318474698d1876ad98708062025-01-30T09:52:44ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232012-07-011010.4000/discours.8631Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion CuesMarianne Vergez-CouretClémentine AdamIn this paper, we focus on the Elaboration relation and on its automatic identification in French, using the theoretical framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). One of the information sources identified by the SDRT framework to infer the Elaboration relation is based on the existence of a potential subsumption link between the eventualities at stake, depending on lexical semantics and world knowledge. We investigate this claim by combining a weak syntactic marker of the Elaboration relation, namely the gerund clause, with lexical cohesion cues. We aim at automatically identifying gerund clauses which are Elaborations by finding cohesive links between the host main clause and the gerund clause. This approach makes it possible to accurately detect few cases of intra-sentential Elaborations in our corpus, confirming the fact that lexical cohesion cues are relevant for this task.https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8631SDRTdiscourse structureElaborationlexical cohesion cuesdistributional neighbourhood |
| spellingShingle | Marianne Vergez-Couret Clémentine Adam Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues Discours SDRT discourse structure Elaboration lexical cohesion cues distributional neighbourhood |
| title | Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues |
| title_full | Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues |
| title_fullStr | Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues |
| title_short | Signaling Elaboration: Combining French Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cohesion Cues |
| title_sort | signaling elaboration combining french gerund clauses with lexical cohesion cues |
| topic | SDRT discourse structure Elaboration lexical cohesion cues distributional neighbourhood |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8631 |
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