TCL - A Lexicon of Turkish Discourse Connectives

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2019-01-01

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Zeyrek Bozşahin, Deniz

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It is known that discourse connectives are the most salient indicators of discourse relations. State-of-the-art parsers being developed to predict explicit discourse connectives exploit annotated discourse corpora but a lexicon of discourse connectives is also needed to enable further research in discourse structure and support the development of language technologies that use these structures for text understanding. This paper presents a lexicon of Turkish discourse connectives built by automatic means. The lexicon has the format of the German connective lexicon, DiMLex, where for each discourse connective, information about the connective's orthographic variants, syntactic category and senses are provided along with sample relations. In this paper, we describe the data sources we used and the development steps of the lexicon.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56175

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1st International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations

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D. Zeyrek Bozşahin, “TCL - A Lexicon of Turkish Discourse Connectives,” presented at the 1st International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, Florence, ITALY, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56175.