This article shows how the automatic disambiguation of discourse connectives can improve
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) from English to French. Connectives are firstly …

The various meanings of discourse connectives like while and however are difficult to
identify and annotate, even for trained human annotators. This problem is all the more …

This paper describes methods and results for the annotation of two discourse-level
phenomena, connectives and pronouns, over a multilingual parallel corpus. Excerpts from …

Abstract Machine Translation (MT) has progressed tremendously in the past two decades.
The rule-based and interlingua approaches have been superseded by statistical models …

This paper discusses the empirical validation of annotation schemes proposed for discourse
relations, when signaled explicitly by discourse connectives, through their application to …

Disambiguating discourse connectives using parallel corpora: senses vs. translations Page 1
Disambiguating discourse connectives using parallel corpora: senses vs. translations Thomas …

This paper reports on an investigation of the functions of the English causal discourse
markers 'because'and 'so'and their Lithuanian counterparts and analyses the Lithuanian …

In discourse, cohesion is a required component of meaningful and well organised text. It
establishes the relationship between different elements in the text using a number of devices …

The newest research has proved the importance of discourse for second language learning
and teaching at more advanced levels. TED-MDB multilingual discourse-annotated corpus …

This paper gives a detailed description of the ACT (Accuracy of Connective Translation)
metric, a reference-based metric that assesses only connective translations. ACT relies on …