Turkish Discourse Bank: Connectives and Their Configurations

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2018-01-01

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Zeyrek Bozşahin, Deniz
Bozşahin, Hüseyin Cem

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The Turkish Discourse Bank (TDB) is a resource of approximately 400,000 words in its current release in which explicit discourse connectives and phrasal expressions are annotated along with the textual spans they relate. The corpus has been annotated by annotators using a semiautomatic annotation tool. We expect that it will enable researchers to study aspects of language beyond the sentence level. The TDB follows the Penn Discourse Tree Bank (PDTB) in adopting a connective-based annotation for discourse. The connectives are considered heads of annotated discourse relations. We have so far found only applicative structures in Turkish discourse, which, unlike syntactic heads, seem to have no need for composition. Interleaving in-text spans of arguments appears to be only apparently-crossing, and related to information structure.

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https://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319901633
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80448

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Turkish Natural Language Processing

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D. Zeyrek Bozşahin and H. C. Bozşahin, Turkish Discourse Bank: Connectives and Their Configurations. 2018, p. 356.