Multilingual extension of PDTB annotation: the case ofTED Multilingual Discourse Bank

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2017-06-10

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Zeyrek Bozşahin, Deniz

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D. Zeyrek Bozşahin, “Multilingual extension of PDTB annotation: the case ofTED Multilingual Discourse Bank,” 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84204.